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Federal Judge Rules Race-Based Portion Of Houston Program Unconstitutional
Federal Judge Rules Race-Based Portion Of Houston Program Unconstitutional
Authored by Kimberly Hayek via The Epoch Times,
A federal judge on Tuesday permanently barred the city of Houston from enforcing the race-based parts of a program that includes numerical goals for awarding public contracts to minority-owned businesses, ruling that doing so is in violation of the equal protection clause of the 14th Amendment.
A judge's gavel, in this file photo. Andrew Kelly/Reuters
U.S. District Judge David Hittner described his decision as the first to extend the U.S. Supreme Court's 2023 ruling against race-conscious...
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