Montana hit with federal lawsuit over ‘race and gender balancing’ on medical board

A national medical advocacy group filed a federal lawsuit on Tuesday against Gov. Greg Gianforte’s (R-MT) office challenging Montana’s use of race and gender mandates to govern appointments to public boards. The lawsuit, filed on behalf of Do No Harm by the Pacific Legal Foundation this week, challenges Montana’s requirement that its governor consider race and gender when making appointments to the state’s 12-member Board of Medical Examiners. “This type of discriminatory mandate is unconstitutional and represents the politicization of healthcare that is dangerous for patients,” Dr. Stanley Goldfarb, chairman...