A state law requiring at least one member of the state cosmetology board to be an African-American could be vulnerable to a legal challenge, the state attorney general said in a new opinion.
Attorney General Kris Kobach said in an opinion that the law in question - enacted in 2002 - could present a "difficult task" to defend in court although he couldn't say for sure whether it was constitutional.
Kobach said that the law would have to meet a "strict scrutiny" standard, meaning it would have . . .
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