Dropping like bombers out of the Sun..the Judicial system craters MAGA hopes.
I gotta admit..I'm kinda enjoying the game thus far~
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A Chicago federal judge on Thursday barred the Department of Labor from enforcing part of a Trump executive order targeting diversity, equity, and inclusion initiatives.
Judge Matthew Kennelly of the Northern District of Illinois granted a nationwide temporary restraining order barring enforcement of a provision that requires grant recipients to certify they do not “operate any programs promoting DEI that violate any applicable Federal anti-discrimination laws.”
Though the government “emphasized, both in its brief and at oral argument, that the Certification Provision implicates only illegal DEI programs, it has studiously declined to shed any light on what this means,” Kennelly wrote. “The answer is anything but obvious.”
A nationwide restraining order on that provision “is appropriate to protect grantees who cannot afford the risks inherent in biting the hand that feeds them,” he wrote.
Chicago Women in Trades sued the Trump administration over the anti-DEI orders in February, saying the directives pose an existential threat to a group whose mission is to promote women in the skilled trades.
Their request for a nationwide restraining order came after the US Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit stayed a prior injunction that prohibited the government from acting on certain anti-diversity directives.
The group had also requested a nationwide prohibition on enforcing a different part of the Trump orders, which directed agencies to terminate “equity-related” grants “to the maximum extent allowed by law.”
Kennelly instead imposed a narrower order, barring enforcement of that provision only as it relates to Chicago Women in Trades and any federal grantee through which the group “holds a subcontract or is a subrecipient of federal funds.”
I gotta admit..I'm kinda enjoying the game thus far~
Labor Agency Barred From Imposing Anti-DEI Order for Grants (1)
A Chicago federal judge on Thursday barred the Department of Labor from enforcing part of a Trump executive order targeting diversity, equity, and inclusion initiatives.
A Chicago federal judge on Thursday barred the Department of Labor from enforcing part of a Trump executive order targeting diversity, equity, and inclusion initiatives.
Judge Matthew Kennelly of the Northern District of Illinois granted a nationwide temporary restraining order barring enforcement of a provision that requires grant recipients to certify they do not “operate any programs promoting DEI that violate any applicable Federal anti-discrimination laws.”
Though the government “emphasized, both in its brief and at oral argument, that the Certification Provision implicates only illegal DEI programs, it has studiously declined to shed any light on what this means,” Kennelly wrote. “The answer is anything but obvious.”
A nationwide restraining order on that provision “is appropriate to protect grantees who cannot afford the risks inherent in biting the hand that feeds them,” he wrote.
Chicago Women in Trades sued the Trump administration over the anti-DEI orders in February, saying the directives pose an existential threat to a group whose mission is to promote women in the skilled trades.
Their request for a nationwide restraining order came after the US Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit stayed a prior injunction that prohibited the government from acting on certain anti-diversity directives.
The group had also requested a nationwide prohibition on enforcing a different part of the Trump orders, which directed agencies to terminate “equity-related” grants “to the maximum extent allowed by law.”
Kennelly instead imposed a narrower order, barring enforcement of that provision only as it relates to Chicago Women in Trades and any federal grantee through which the group “holds a subcontract or is a subrecipient of federal funds.”
