Biden’s Race-Based Minority Business Program Partially Blocked

June 6, 2023, 5:24 PM UTC

White business owners convinced a federal judge in Texas to partially block a Biden administration program designed to promote minority businesses.

The businessmen are likely to succeed on their claim that the Business Center Program violates the Fifth Amendment’s equal protection guarantee, because it isn’t narrowly tailored to a compelling government interest, the opinion by Judge Mark T. Pittman of the US District Court for the Northern District of Texas said Monday.

Pittman didn’t issue the nationwide injunction requested by the businessmen. Instead, he enjoined only the Wisconsin MDBA Business Center, the Orlando MBDA Business Center, the Dallas-Fort Worth MBDA ...

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