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cjgl-4560	Ritter, Kathleen	We Are Not Struck with Blindness: The Establishment Clause and Religiously Motivated State Preemption of Municipal Non-Discrimination Law	2020	46	.pdf	application/pdf	18565	738	48	In most cases, state preemption of municipal action is valid and almost impossible to challenge, as will be discussed in Part II.B. On occasion, however, state preemption laws may run afoul of the federal Constitution. A. Equal Protection Challenge To prevail on an equal protection claim against state preemption laws, cities must show that the state law in question either intentionally discriminated against a protected 60 See Hunter v. City of Pittsburgh, 207 U.S. 161, 178–79 (1907).	cache/cjgl-4560.pdf	txt/cjgl-4560.txt