{"id":117655,"date":"2026-01-19T13:37:19","date_gmt":"2026-01-19T18:37:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cablemanpro.com\/wallstreetpr\/laws-demanding-race-based-state-action-are-unconstitutional-florida-ag-declares-117655"},"modified":"2026-01-19T13:37:19","modified_gmt":"2026-01-19T18:37:19","slug":"laws-demanding-race-based-state-action-are-unconstitutional-florida-ag-declares","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cablemanpro.com\/wallstreetpr\/laws-demanding-race-based-state-action-are-unconstitutional-florida-ag-declares-117655","title":{"rendered":"Laws demanding race-based state action are unconstitutional, Florida AG declares"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/category\/us\/us-regions\/southeast\/florida\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Florida<\/a> Attorney General James Uthemeier issued an opinion in which he declared that state laws that call for race-based discrimination are unconstitutional and will not be enforced by his office.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Racial discrimination is wrong. It is also unconstitutional. Yet Florida maintains several laws on its books that promote and require discrimination on its face,&#8221; Uthmeier asserted in the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.myfloridalegal.com\/sites\/default\/files\/1.19.26-ago.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">opinion<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The question of law presented here is: Are Florida laws that mandate discrimination based on race by giving preferences to certain racial groups, using race-based classifications, or employing racial quotas, constitutional? In short, the answer is no. Any laws requiring race-based state action are presumptively unconstitutional under the Fourteenth Amendment&#8217;s Equal Protection Clause and Article I, section 2, of Florida&#8217;s Constitution,&#8221; he noted.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/media\/florida-ag-sues-starbucks-systemic-discrimination-says-workers-punished-being-white\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>FLORIDA AG SUES STARBUCKS FOR &#8216;SYSTEMIC DISCRIMINATION,&#8217; SAYS WORKERS PUNISHED FOR BEING WHITE<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;As Attorney General, I and my office must honor the U.S. and Florida Constitutions&#8217; guarantee of equal protection under the law. Because enforcing and obeying these discriminatory laws would violate those bedrock legal guarantees, those laws are unconstitutional,&#8221; he noted. &#8220;My office, therefore, will not defend or enforce any of these discriminatory provisions.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/politics\/florida-ag-invites-people-alert-his-office-ex-us-illegally-wed-happy-assist\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>FLORIDA AG INVITES PEOPLE TO ALERT HIS OFFICE IF THEIR EX IS IN US ILLEGALLY: \u2018WE\u2019D BE HAPPY TO ASSIST&#8217;<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Uthmeier&#8217;s opinion was issued on Monday as Americans mark the federal holiday that honors Martin Luther King Jr., the iconic civil rights leader who was assassinated in 1968.<\/p>\n<p>Florida Gov. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/category\/person\/ron-desantis\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Ron DeSantis<\/a> appointed Uthmeier to serve as the state&#8217;s attorney general last year.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/us\/smiling-anti-ice-agitator-accused-punching-florida-trooper-desantis-asserts-this-not-minneapolis\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>SMILING ANTI-ICE AGITATOR ACCUSED OF PUNCHING FLORIDA TROOPER AS DESANTIS ASSERTS, \u2018THIS IS NOT MINNEAPOLIS\u2019<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Uthmeier had previously served as the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/category\/politics\/state-and-local\/governors\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">governor&#8217;s<\/a> chief of staff.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/politics\/laws-demanding-race-based-state-action-unconstitutional-florida-ag-declares\">Source &#8211; https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/politics\/laws-demanding-race-based-state-action-unconstitutional-florida-ag-declares <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Florida Attorney General James Uthemeier issued an opinion in which he declared that state laws that call for race-based discrimination are unconstitutional and will not [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"rop_custom_images_group":[],"rop_custom_messages_group":[],"rop_publish_now":"initial","rop_publish_now_accounts":{"twitter_2902945987_2902945987":""},"rop_publish_now_history":[],"rop_publish_now_status":"pending","footnotes":""},"categories":[16563],"tags":[],"stock_ticker":[],"class_list":["post-117655","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-market-news","entry"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.2 - 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