Smithsonian Latino Internship is Unconstitutional, Suit Says

The American Alliance for Equal Rights, led by conservative legal activist Edward Blum, says that a Smithsonian internship for Latino college students violates the Fifth Amendment, according to a new lawsuit.

The alliance says that the Latino Museum Studies Program Undergraduate Internship “outright requires, or at a minimum strongly prefers, interns to be Latino,” and that staff members of the Smithsonian have confirmed “that the internship discriminates against non-Latinos,” according to the complaint filed in the US District Court for the District of Columbia. The group says that in the two years the internship existed, no intern has identified as ...