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AMERICANALMANAC (Alex Tanzer) - Missouri attorney general sues Kansas City over race-based contracting program

Missouri's Republican attorney general filed a federal lawsuit alleging Kansas City's minority business contracting program discriminates against white people and men, and the city's Democratic mayor fired back, calling it a "political stunt." Attorney General Catherine Hanaway brought the suit this week on behalf of a Kansas City salvage company and its owner, claiming the […] The post Missouri attorney general sues Kansas City over race-based contracting program appeared first on American Almanac .

Missouri's Republican attorney general filed a federal lawsuit alleging Kansas City's minority business contracting program discriminates against white people and men, and the city's Democratic mayor fired back, calling it a "political stunt." Attorney General Catherine Hanaway brought the suit this week on behalf of a Kansas City salvage company and its owner, claiming the city's Minority and Women-Owned Business Enterprise program violates the Equal Protection Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment. The program, which has existed in some form for more than three decades, sets goals for how much contracting money flows to businesses owned by minorities and women. Hanaway wants a federal judge to permanently bar the city from considering race…Open

THEAMERICANCONSERVATIVE (Allum Bokhari) - Democrats Weaponize AI Regulation to Push DEI

The White House’s AI framework offers the best path forward. The post Democrats Weaponize AI Regulation to Push DEI appeared first on The American Conservative .

Politics Democrats Weaponize AI Regulation to Push DEI The White House’s AI framework offers the best path forward. (Photo by Michael Ciaglo/Getty Images) A Colorado statute that was supposed to take effect next month would take a regulatory mechanism familiar from civil rights law—the requirement that private actors examine outcomes by race and adjust their conduct when the numbers come out wrong—and push it into territory the Supreme Court so far has avoided presiding over: artificial intelligence. Colorado Senate Bill 24-205, currently under challenge in federal court by Elon Musk’s xAI and the Department of…Open