Tennessee's top prosecutor warns CEOs that race-based hiring policies are unconstitutional

Tennessee Attorney General Jonathan Skrmetti on Thursday signed onto a letter to the CEOs of Fortune 100 companies criticizing diversity policies and "race-based preferences in employment and contracting."

Skrmetti and 12 other Republican attorneys general sent the letter to all Fortune 100 CEOs on Thursday, two weeks after the U.S. Supreme Court struck down race-conscious admission policies in colleges and universities. The attorneys general argued that the principles behind that decision apply equally to corporations and that racial preferences in hiring were similarly unconstitutional.