{"id":1426915,"date":"2022-04-09T14:14:46","date_gmt":"2022-04-09T18:14:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1426915"},"modified":"2022-04-09T14:14:49","modified_gmt":"2022-04-09T18:14:49","slug":"california-judge-diversity-quota-discrimination-remedied-by-more-discrimination","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/california-judge-diversity-quota-discrimination-remedied-by-more-discrimination\/","title":{"rendered":"California Judge: Diversity Quota &#039;Discrimination &#8230; Remedied by More Discrimination&#039;"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">20<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fcalifornia-judge-diversity-quota-discrimination-remedied-by-more-discrimination%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1426915&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div><\/div>\n<p class=\"subheading\">The California Superior Court has <a href=\"https:\/\/www.judicialwatch.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/Crest-v-Padilla-order-37513-1.pdf\">released<\/a> its reasoning behind declaring the state\u2019s diversity quota law unconstitutional, ruling that only in \u201cvery particular cases should discrimination be remedied by more discrimination.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The law, which <a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/politics\/2022\/04\/04\/california-judge-rules-corporate-diversity-quota-law-unconstitutional\/\">requires<\/a> California-based corporate boards have members from an \u201cunderrepresented community\u201d was signed by leftist Gov. Gavin Newsom (D) last year.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"D-ROS-B1\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B1\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"gmxrevmore\" class=\"H\"><\/figure>\n<p>Conservative legal watchdog Judicial Watch\u00a0<a class=\"x5l\" href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/us\/california-corporate-diversity-law-ruled-unconstitutional\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener external\">sought<\/a>\u00a0a permanent injunction on the measure, citing the Golden State\u2019s equal protection clause, which was granted originally with no explanation from the judge. Judge Terry A. Green\u2019s opinion said the law \u201cviolates the\u00a0Equal Protection Clause of the California Constitution on its face.\u201d<\/p>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B2\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<p>\u201cThe difficulty is that the Legislature is thinking in group terms. But the California Constitution protects the right of\u00a0individuals\u00a0to equal treatment,\u201d Green wrote. \u201cBefore the Legislature may require that members of one group be given certain board seats, it must first try to create neutral conditions under which qualified individuals from\u00a0any\u00a0group may succeed. That attempt was not made in this case.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe statute treats similarly situated individuals \u2013 qualified potential corporate board members \u2013 differently based on their membership (or lack thereof) in certain listed racial, sexual orientation, and gender identity groups,\u201d he continued. \u201cIt requires that a certain specific number of board seats be reserved for members of the groups on the list \u2013 and necessarily excludes members of other groups from those seats.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cCalifornia must treat its citizens equally as individuals under the law, and not give discriminatory, preferential treatment to some based on race, ethnicity or LGBT status,\u201d Judicial Watch President Tom Fitton said of the ruling. \u201cThis court ruling marks a watershed in the core American value of equal protection under the law for all Americans. And it warns against the pernicious racialism of the radical Left.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The case is <em>Crest v. Padilla<\/em>, No. 20 STCV 37513, in the Superior Court of California.<\/p>\n<p><em>Breccan F. Thies<\/em>\u00a0<em>is a reporter for Breitbart News. You can follow him on Twitter\u00a0<a title=\"This external link will open in a new window\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/BreccanFThies\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">@BreccanFThies<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The California Superior Court has released its reasoning behind declaring the state\u2019s diversity quota law unconstitutional, ruling that only in \u201cvery particular cases should discrimination be remedied by more discrimination.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":179,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1426915","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1426915","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/179"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1426915"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1426915\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1426915"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1426915"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1426915"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}