Pam Bondi Instructs Trump DOJ to Criminally Investigate Companies That Do DEI
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Civil rights advocates may well file suit immediately against the Justice Department to secure an injunction.

Summary

Attorney General Pam Bondi has ordered the DOJ to investigate private companies for DEI programs, potentially pursuing criminal charges.

Citing the 2023 Supreme Court ruling against affirmative action, she argues DEI initiatives violate anti-discrimination laws. The directive targets large corporations, nonprofits, and universities, with reports due by March 1.

Legal experts warn this move likely violates First Amendment protections, as courts have upheld employers’ rights to promote diversity.

Civil rights groups are expected to challenge the policy, setting up a major legal battle for the administration.

  • jwiggler@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
    441·
    2 months ago

    We are living through the greatest constitutional crisis of our lifetimes – maybe since the Civil War. The US has never seen anything happen like this domestically. We are rapidly moving toward the dissolution of the US and civil war.

    If the courts do not prosecute Trump and Elon Musk, which is highly likely, the assault on EVERY federal service and source of funds will continue. “Throwing it back to the states” will cause the states to contract – without confidence in any federal assistance or regulations, states will need to figure it out themselves – and if they start seeing the federal government as something they need to protect their citizens from…well, why would they remain a part of that federal government? If the US government is completely unreliable due to the massive brain, experience, and regulation drain, what reason do states have to remain a part of that? Especially when the feds want to restrict speech and expression in the way they do.

    And if the courts somehow slap down Elon and Trump and they are removed? Then we’ve got violence from the J6ers and likely more.

    We very well might be witnessing the end of the US, as I see it. But maybe someone can offer some counterpoints

    • Snowclone@lemmy.world
      8·
      2 months ago

      We know all the money is being siphoned off to Trump and his goons, and he’s trying to destroy every agency, particularly the watchdog agencies, which is exactly what happened in Rome that lead to the fall of the empire. If no one is paying anyone to keep track of legal obligations you no longer HAVE legal obligations.

  • TomMasz@lemmy.worldEnglish
    14·
    2 months ago

    You voted for a guy who said he’d be a dictator. Now he’s a dictator doing dictator things. His not doing dictator things would be surprising, not this.

  • Kyrgizion@lemmy.world
    13·
    2 months ago

    Man, you guys are going to have to fight to get your rights back.

    And I don’t mean campaigning. You need to stock up on staples and ammo…

  • randoogle@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
    11·
    2 months ago

    This is one of those times where we should apply the phrase “do not comply in advance”. They didn’t take legal action yet. Make them take legal action before the company changes policies. That’s why I’m so mad at companies like Target that just folded immediately.

  • atzanteol@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
    4·
    2 months ago

    It’s remarkable how rich white guys have co-opted laws that protect against discrimination of minorities to protect themselves from minorities. Almost brilliant in its mendacity, and depressing that the courts will absolutely support it.

  • Wren@lemmy.worldM
    3·
    2 months ago

    What do you think the chances are that she’ll start with any one of these beauties:

    1 Timothy 2:9-15

    Likewise also that women should adorn themselves in respectable apparel, with modesty and self-control, not with braided hair and gold or pearls or costly attire, but with what is proper for women who profess godliness—with good works. Let a woman learn quietly with all submissiveness

    1 Timothy 2:12-13

    I do not permit a woman to teach or to exercise authority over a man; rather, she is to remain quiet. For Adam was formed first, then Eve

    1 Corinthians 14:34-35

    The women should keep silent in the churches. For they are not permitted to speak, but should be in submission, as the Law also says. If there is anything they desire to learn, let them ask their husbands at home. For it is shameful for a woman to speak in church.