Florida attorney general issues subpoena to the NFL over the Rooney Rule

I wonder how this will go with the NFL and their army of lawyers

>The subpoena commands the league to appear at the attorney general’s office in Tallahassee, Florida, on June 12. It asks the league to produce extensive documents, including “all diversity reports, coaching census data, or demographic surveys that reflect the race and sex of coaching staffs of the teams from 2017 to the present.” Racist fishing expedition, thy name is Jim Crow. >Florida Attorney General James Uthmeier has issued a subpoena to the NFL as his office investigates whether the league has committed potential civils rights violations related to the Rooney Rule and the league’s other employment practices, policies and programs. [Who is James Uthmeier, you ask?](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Uthmeier#Hope_Florida_Foundation_scandal) During the 2025 legislative session, Uthmeier was involved in a controversy surrounding the transfer of $10,000,000 from a Medicaid settlement to a political committee he controlled. In September 2024, Florida reached a $67 million settlement with Centene Corporation for Medicaid overbilling. Under the agreement, $10 million was directed to the Hope Florida Foundation, a nonprofit affiliated with First Lady Casey DeSantis. The Foundation transferred $5 million each to two nonprofit organizations, Secure Florida's Future and Save Our Society from Drugs, which then donated $8.5 million to Keep Florida Clean, a political committee chaired by Uthmeier that campaigned against Amendment 3, the recreational marijuana ballot initiative.

The south is just not even trying to hide the racism anymore. Thanks John Robert's "supreme" Court.

Florida AG Troubled by Meaningless NFL Rule

The NFL should counter by changing next season's schedule and make Jacksonville, Tampa, and Miami all play their international games against each other in Antarctica. Florida wants everything white. Well, there's plenty of white down there.

So it appears the NfL is based in NYC. Which by my calculations isn’t in Florida. And if I understand correctly the NFL teams are independent private organizations. So wouldn’t the beef be with the Florida based teams the Jags and a Dolphins?

This is the same AG that's trying to outlaw surrogacy and possibly even adoption by extension under the guise of "modern day slavery". [https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2026/05/florida-attorney-general-desantis-outlaw-surrogacy-adoption-gross.html](https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2026/05/florida-attorney-general-desantis-outlaw-surrogacy-adoption-gross.html)

There has to be more important shit for the Florida AG to do. This rule doesn’t affect hiring at all. It just says they have to interview a certain number of people who are minorities. And they are a private business. I thought private business could make whatever cakes they wanted or some bullshit.

So will the Florida AG show up in court in a suit or just wear his Grand Wizard robes?

I wonder if this is retaliation for them taking Miami out of the Superbowl rotation.

Republicans messing with private businesses again.

Rooney rule is dead or the NFL owes Chicago two third round draft picks for Cunningham to ATL

Party of small government at it again.

Just the south doing what the south does, trying to bring back Jim Crow.

Sounds like the NFL doesn’t need to operate in Florida anymore.

So could the NFL kick out the Florida teams over this? It would be interesting to see how fast Florida backs down on this if the teams lose NFL status. The teams would then be worthless. The team’s owners would put a lot of pressure to have Florida drop this.

Why any athlete, especially a woman or person of color, play in a Red State is beyond my level of understanding.

Black (and white players too for that matter) NFL players should bench themselves when their teams play in any of these JimCrow states.

Florida has a witch doctor as Surgeon General, why wouldn't they have a shyster as AG?

Florida’s AG vs the NFL? I don’t do prediction markets, but if I did I know who I’d have my money on here.

Of course they're suing to do away with it. Why does MAGA hate black people so much lately?

So what’s the point in attorneys suing the NFL ? It’s there sport right ? So what does a state get to tell what rules or not to follow ??

A the GOP is for business that do what the GOP says.

The owning the libs agenda in action. People can't afford to feed their families, but red states are winning as long as they make libs look bad.

Just exempt them and the first time they dont get a compensation pick the AG will not be safe anywhere in FL.