Top of the Fold

• California’s corporate diversity quota law struck down: A 2020 California law requiring public companies to include at least one minority, either racial or gender, on their board of directors was ruled unconstitutional on Friday. State Judge Terry Green issued the ruling without explaining it, likely because the law was so obviously unconstitutional it needed no explanation. California Democrats created the law to further their radical “social justice” agenda. As Governor Gavin Newsom stated when signing the bill, “When we talk about racial justice, we talk about empowerment, we talk about power, we need to talk about seats at the table.” The problem was the legislation clearly ran counter to the Golden State’s constitution, which expressly upholds equal protection by explicitly banning any laws that would favor people based on race, ethnicity, or sexual preference. An individual’s skills, abilities, and accomplishments, not their racial, ethnic, or sexual identity, should be what most concerns a company seeking to hire those who help the business perform well.

• Amazon workers unionize in New York but not in Alabama: For the first time in the Big Tech company’s history, workers at Amazon’s warehouse in Staten Island, New York, voted to join a union. In a vote of 2,654 to 2,131, employees voted in favor of joining the Amazon Labor Union. Amazon has long fought against unionization but now sees its largest facility in New York unionize. However, that was not the case for the company’s warehouse in Bessemer, Alabama, where workers again rejected joining a union 993 to 875. Last spring, these Amazon employees rejected unionization by nearly a two-to-one margin, though claims of the company improperly influencing the election bought the pro-union faction another vote. That also failed.

• Republicans secure last-second redistricting wins: Democrats have been touting their successes in the redistricting fight over the last several months as they have won several court battles, and some estimates pegged their gain in House seats to be four or five. But that all changed recently as Republicans secured a string of court rulings that push the estimate of Democrat gains down to one or two. “Democrats spent a lot of time crowing — they were spiking the football at the end of the third quarter,” said National Republican Redistricting Trust President Adam Kincaid. “We knew then, like I’m saying now, that we were exactly where we thought we were going to be at this point.” The recent Republican victories come in the states of Ohio, Maryland, and New York. Furthermore, with the strong political headwinds the Democrats are facing, and with Republicans needing to net just five seats to reclaim majority control of the House, the Democrats’ hope of using gerrymandering as a mechanism to stave off those losses may not work out.

• NYC keeps kids in masks: Even after New York City finally saw the light and ended its dubious mask mandate, the city’s leaders still can’t quite let it go entirely. Unfortunately, young children — those least threatened by COVID-19 — will be the ones forced to continue suffering under the Left’s ignorant virtue signaling, as kids ages two through four will continue to be required to wear masks in daycare. Naturally, Mayor Eric Adams erroneously asserted that the reason for the mask mandate was for the “children’s health and safety.” Even as hospitalizations due to COVID have remained low (the city averages just 13 cases a day), Big Apple health commissioner Dr. Ashwin Vasan recommended waiting “a little bit longer before making masks optional for this age group.” New York Post columnist Karol Markowicz, who recently moved out of NYC to Florida expressly over concerns about the harm the city’s masking policy was having on her children, minced no words: “NYC Health Commissioner Ashwin Vasan is the person recommending toddler masking, in the face of absolutely all evidence showing it to be unnecessary and harmful. Don’t forget his name. There are people who purposely hurt children during this pandemic and he is one of them.”

Headlines

• Biden administration to lift Title 42 at end of May despite fears of looming migrant wave (Fox News) | Moderate Democrats sound alarm (National Review)

• House votes to decriminalize marijuana at federal level (Fox News)

• Six killed, 12 hurt in Sacramento shooting (Sacramento Bee) | Biden uses shooting to push gun control agenda (Fox News)

• Biden’s wish for Trump prosecution leaked as Democrats mount pressure campaign on DOJ (Washington Examiner)

• 62,000+ illegal immigrants got past Border Patrol agents in March (Fox News)

• New evidence of Big Tech shadow-banning conservatives (Bongino.com)

• Elon Musk becomes Twitter’s biggest shareholder after taking a 9.2% stake in company (Daily Mail)

• South Carolina women’s basketball team catches flak for skipping national anthem at Final Four (Fox News)

• Victory! Man champ can’t compete as a woman after female cyclists threaten boycott (PJ Media)

• Judge upholds Ghislaine Maxwell’s sex trafficking conviction (AP)

• Franklin Graham asks Putin and Zelensky for a Holy Week ceasefire (Christian Post)

• Sarah Palin announces run for U.S. House seat from Alaska (Reuters)

• Policy: Pence’s new “Freedom Agenda” promotes patriotic education, challenges Big Tech (Daily Signal)

• Humor: Joe Biden walks back claims that Hunter Biden is his son (Babylon Bee)

• Related humor: Jen Psaki walks back claims that she ever worked for Biden administration (Babylon Bee)

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