Laws that distinguish between individuals on the basis of race are (at least in theory) almost impossible to justify, because the Supreme Court has held that they are subject to "strict scrutiny, " the most forbidding standard of review.
But it remains to be seen whether they will also need to carry on living with the continued double standard of many journalists placing them under critical scrutiny while failing to challenge lobby groups that make inaccurate and misleading claims about the science and misrepresent their own ideological motives.