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If there was a law that said "white people get 10% off of every purchase." If it was being repealed for some politically motivated reason, and white people said

• dragonwriter 5y ago
  > If there was a law that said "white people get 10% off of every purchase." If a state had such a law would be pretty clearly unconstitutional ab initio. > If it was being repealed for some politically motivated reason, and white people said "I am being harmed!" would you agree with them? Assuming the law not only existed on the books but was enforced by the state prior to the repeal, yes, they would obviously be being harmed for an unconstitutional purpose in violation of their First and Fourteenth Amendment rights. (If any remedy was available, it wouldn't involve preserving the policy, because that policy is a violation of other people's Constitutional rights, but since we haven't been discussing remedies in the Florida case and no one has argued that the special district exceeds Florida’s Constitutional power, that aspect of the hypothetical is not relevant to the discussion.)
• colburnmh 4y ago
  Laws are never enacted or repealed without some politically motivated reason. And every time a law is enacted or repealed there are winners and losers, be it politically, socially, financially, or whatever. I'm not sure the point you are trying to make, but, you are not currently making a good argument to defend it.