TAMPA, Fla. (WFLA) – Florida Attorney General James Uthmeier visited Tampa on Tuesday to announce an investigation related to artificial intelligence following a mass shooting at FSU in 2025.
Following that news conference, he took questions from reporters. Uthmeier answered a question involving a decision to not enforce dozens of state laws that include race-based action. He said those laws are in violation of the Fourteenth Amendment’s Equal Protection Clause.
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“I, like other official state constitutional officers, take an oath,” Uthmeier said. “I stand by the constitution.”
In January, Uthmeier issued an opinion saying state laws like establishing the Black Business Loan Program, the Department of Health’s Office of Minority Health and Health Equity, along with college outreach programs to increase low-income minority students are unconstitutional…