President Donald Trump won a rare victory at the district court level on Friday when a judge in Washington, D.C., allowed the government to move full steam ahead with a series of executive orders aimed at rooting out “diversity, equity, and inclusion” (DEI) initiatives.
On Feb. 19, the National Urban League and others sued the Trump administration over several executive orders ending DEI programs in federal government contracts, barring the government from contracting with vendors who have internal DEI programs or that “promote the idea that transgender people exist,” and directing administrative agencies to only recognize “two sexes.”
This needs to be appealed, at least in part. These items seem to me to violate the First and Tenth Amendments:
1. Barring the government from contracting with vendors who have internal DEI programs
2. Barring the government from contracting with vendors that promote the idea that transgender people exist
3. Directing administrative agencies to only recognize two sexes.
‘Plaintiffs have not come close’: Trump-appointed judge allows government to enforce anti-DEI executive orders
“The government does not abridge the right to free speech by choosing not to subsidize it, and that right does not permit Plaintiffs or anyone else to violate federal anti-discrimination law.” The post ‘Plaintiffs have not come close’: Trump-appointed judge allows government to enforce anti-DEI executive orders first appeared on Law & Crime.