New case: Doctors file lawsuit over racial quota for Tennessee medical board

No government committee should use an individual’s race or ethnicity to determine membership. But incredibly, that is what's happening in Tennessee, where the law says that one member of the Board of Podiatric Medical Examiners must be a racial minority.

Now a group of over 6,000 physicians and healthcare professionals is fighting the racial quota in court with Pacific Legal Foundation’s help. The quota is “demeaning, patronizing, un-American, and unconstitutional,” PLF attorneys argued in the complaint, filed Wednesday.

American Habits: How unelected bureaucrats undermine the people’s representatives

In Texas, bureaucrats at state agencies have admitted to ignoring a 30-year-old law that requires them to review their regulations every four years.

Even worse: When legislators noticed agencies weren’t following the law, the agencies said they’d conduct the reviews only if the legislature appropriated $43 million over five years.

California Globe: Alameda County clings to discriminatory legacy for government contracts

If you’re a construction contractor in Alameda County, California, you are disqualified from prime government construction projects unless you agree to subcontract 15 percent of the job to a minority-owned business. That’s unconstitutional.

PLF’s lawsuit challenging the discriminatory requirement is now at California’s First District Court of Appeal.

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