Posted on 04/05/2022 7:53:45 PM PDT by bitt
A California law mandating corporations set racial, ethnic, and gender identity-based diversity quotas was ruled unconstitutional by a Los Angeles judge.
The law, which requires California-based corporate boards have members from an “underrepresented community,” was signed by leftist Gov. Gavin Newsom (D) last year. It also required compliance with at least one member from such a community by December 31, 2021. By December 31, 2022, corporate boards were required to fill a minimum proportion of the seats on the board with “underrepresented community” members based on the size of the board.
Conservative legal watchdog Judicial Watch sought a permanent injunction on the measure citing the Golden State’s equal protection clause, which was granted with no explanation from the judge.
California lawyers argued the law did not “discriminate against, or grant preferential treatment to, any individual or group on the basis of race, sex, color, ethnicity, or national origin in the operation of public employment, public education, or public contracting” in a court filing.
The injunction “declared unconstitutional one of the most blatant and significant attacks in the modern era on constitutional prohibitions against discrimination,” Judicial Watch President Tom Fitton said, according to Fox News.
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Good! It was not only discriminatory, it was utterly STUPID!
“Good! It was not only discriminatory, it was utterly STUPID!”
I agree and I am amazed that the judge made the right decision. A rarity in this day and age.
A shocker! 🙄
Every one of them knew it was unconstitutional when they voted/signed it into law.
Because they are lawless and they don’t care who knows it.
What is it with California and the ‘60’s? Let it go already. They’re never coming back and that is a good thing. Pictures of California always look better without any people in them anyway, sooooo...
They did it to virtue-signal while calling attention to an indisputable fact: In a meritocracy, some groups will consistently be under-represented at higher levels. They tried to force on the corporate world what Big Government has already installed in its workforce: Mass wealth re-distribution based on gender and/or race.
The constitution the thing democrats hate to most it interferes with their agenda.
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