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.
They want to criminally investigate private companies for setting their own policies? Real small government and pro business of them. /s
What if her employer was ‘guilty’ of that. Would she lose her job if she were employed because of DEI?
Translation: Pam Bondi gets in line to lick Trump’s ass
Oh look… An actual weaponized DOJ. Projection of drumps goals strikes again.
With the qons, it is always projection.
Always.
“she argues DEI initiatives violate anti-discrimination laws.”
Up is down, wrong is right, black is white.
God I hate this country
Not discriminating against brown ppl is discrimination against whites!
“When you’re accustomed to privilege, equality feels like oppression.”
War is peace, freedom is slavery, ignorance is strength.
My attitude at this point is that the US is getting what it deserves, you want to be as racist as possible? OK, enjoy your destroyed economy, lost civil rights, and felon president who’s just white enough to steal all your tax revenue.
There are a lot of people living in the united states who don’t deserve to deal with this racist bullshit.
The people it affects most are the ones who majority voted against him
Certainly. But an awful lot of these people stayed at home during the last election.
And an awful lot of them voted FOR this. I am marrying into an Hispanic family with some people who voted for Trump… who were then surprised when they were fired from their jobs immediately after he announced the DEI orders.
Indeed. Most of us either voted directly against it, sat out, or voted for some useless third party. And as infuriating as the second two groups are - most people did not actively vote FOR this shit.
And then there are the people that are ineligible to vote like kids, who definitely don’t deserve this shit.
Please do not forget that republicans have been actively disenfranchising voters and making it hard to vote. Not everyone who didn’t vote “sat out”; they were literally unable to vote.
Oh yes, I fully realize that.
I’m aware. I’m one of the people they want to ethnicly clense.
Billionaires bought the election; enough propaganda, both via manipulated social media platforms and marketing in swing states, can buy anyone willing to be the stooge of private interests the presidency.
Most Americans don’t deserve to suffer at the hands at such corruption.
Being a woman she should probably fire herself then.
Yeah, she’s looking a little bit “DEI” herself, there.
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
The end of the US was on January 20th. We’re just witnessing its death throes.
We’re dealing with this because the union fucked up and didn’t see reconstruction thru after the civil war.
We had fucking military bases named after confederate generals. That’s enough to tell you the identity of this country.
When the next Civil War happens, we don’t need any Biden fucking losers olive branching the losers. We’ve historically done this and what has happened so far? Next time the US beats the confederates, erase their fucking shitty culture of racism and hate.
I think the message is pretty clear that the US experiment has run its course and the country just needs to split in multiple parts instead of trying to make things work between people with vastly different interests under the same umbrella.
Let the red States become the third world country they want to be.
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.
I think you overestimate the proactivity of the average American. I mean this is the road the US is going down on, but it’ll take them a while before things get that bad.
It’s only been like two weeks and shit is already off the rails. This is moving at an alarming clip.
Could you expound on that? I don’t think average Americans will be able to stop what’s going on because we are too busy with work, families, and entertainment. And if, by chance, we are paying attention to the news, the 24 hour cycle and social media algorithms put some new thing in front of our faces before we have the time to process what we just saw.
Do you mean states aren’t going to be that proactive, so they won’t break away?
Do you mean states aren’t going to be that proactive, so they won’t break away?
I mean if the current style of government continue for like 20 years you’ll start seeing breakaways, but definitely nothing within these four years unless something really dramatic happens. The Democrat-led states are at least as docile as the people living in them, so I can’t imagine them leading a breakaway movement. I mean can you imagine someone like Newsom saying “hell yeah let’s secede”?
Okay yeah I get you now.
I think you have a good point but I do think it could be sooner. If Newsom thinks Trump may cause more damage to to his state than aid (I’m thinking about lack of disaster relief, draining of reservoirs, sending military in to deal with protests, raiding schools for illegal immigrants, stifling scientific research, going after “woke” speech), what choice will he have ?
Already, schools in Massachusetts are informing school nurses not to comply with ICE if they come through. What happens when Trump says that Massachusetts is defying the law and goes after leadership there? Will Massachusetts bend?
But I think ultimately you may be right, I suppose it might depend on how antagonistic Trump is toward blue states.
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.
This guy with 34 felony counts doesn’t seem to know the law, what exactly is illegal? Eh, I guess it doesnt matter anymore, nobody is going to do anything about it until things get physical now.
And if you get physical for the right side, you’ll get a pardon. See J6, Daniel Perry, etc.
Edit: spelling
Thank fuck they’re doing something about egg prices.
For what? It’s not fucking illegal! Fuck!
Well, it also was not illegal for the FBI to investigate J6, or the crimes that donvict carried out, etc…but here we fucking are.
I know… I’m just frustrated…
Correction: It’s not immoral or unjust. Apparently though in the US it is now illegal. Bad laws can be made. I do have to question whether the DoJ can go after people without said law in place…I mean they seemingly are about to, but congressional bodies make the federal and state laws, so what law is being broken?
Except those laws have not yet been made. So it still remains not illegal.
If you’re going to be pedantic, at least be right.
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…
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.
