Posted on 04/02/2022 1:57:03 PM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer
LOS ANGELES -- A Los Angeles judge ruled Friday that California’s landmark law mandating that corporations diversify their boards with members from certain racial, ethnic or LGBT groups is unconstitutional.
The brief ruling granted summary judgment to Judicial Watch, a conservative legal group that sought a permanent injunction against the measure that was signed into law last year. The ruling didn't explain the judge's reasoning.
The measure requires corporate boards of publicly traded companies with a main executive office in California to have a member from an “underrepresented community,” including LGBT, Black, Latino, Asian, Native American or Pacific Islander.
The lawsuit argued that violated the state’s constitutional equal protection clause.
The decision “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 in a statement.
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Of course it’s unconstitutional! It’s wrong too.
Common sense prevails?
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We owe Judicial Watch another tremendous debt of gratitude. Every single freeper should be supporting them.
They also mandated 40% of each Board of Directors be women. Not sure if this ruling stopped that nonsense.
“We owe Judicial Watch another tremendous debt of gratitude”
We absolutely do.
Where in the hell were the damn “Republicans” on this? Anyone bring this up?
Not a peep.
Fitton went after it. But of course, it’s not over. You know the Califreaks are going to the Supremes with this on Appeal. Then we’ll see how Kentanji feels about it...as if we don’t already know.
That was too far for even the leftist California SC...
It’s about as constitutional as allowing only white men to vote.
Asian? I doubt there would be any trouble fulfilling this law.
Yes, and there should be more than one JW.
Haven’t followed Thomas More Law Center lately.
“We owe Judicial Watch another tremendous debt of gratitude. Every single freeper should be supporting them.”
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Nice to hear, but far from over. It will get to an Obama judge or two while the appeals work there way up.
Evil loses. YES!
Once upon a time I gave them some money and I think I got a mailing every other week asking for more money and promoting TF. I’d be really interested in seeing the breakdown on how much they spend on (self?) promotion and actual operations.
There are still some people in California that haven’t lost their minds. WOW!
Only Marxist pigs would ever pass such a ridiculous law. This garbage doesn’t belong in a Constitutional Republic. Besides, it would just cause corporations to leave the state and take their tax revenues somewhere else.
California has hardly any republican representation in Cal state govt. Thanks to the dems rigging of the vote and counting systems here. That’s how they kept this on the down low.
Judicial Watch is a top-notch conservative group who gets results. Congratulations on a super win, Tom Fitton and Larry Klayman!!
Hey its California. Greasy Gavin and his gang of fascists will just ignore the court.
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