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.

  • atzanteol@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
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    16 days 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.

    • Monument@lemmy.sdf.orgEnglish
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      16 days ago

      I hope they find who keeps hiring all the chickens to work in the judicial department, so they can send them back to the farm.

  • Kyrgizion@lemmy.world
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    16 days 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…

  • Wren@lemmy.worldM
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    16 days 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.

  • randoogle@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
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    16 days 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.

  • aarRJaay@lemm.eeEnglish
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    16 days ago

    What if her employer was ‘guilty’ of that. Would she lose her job if she were employed because of DEI?

  • TomMasz@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    16 days 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.

  • SeaJ@lemm.ee
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    16 days ago

    They want to criminally investigate private companies for setting their own policies? Real small government and pro business of them. /s

  • skozzii@lemmy.ca
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    17 days ago

    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.

    • AbidanYre@lemmy.worldEnglish
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      16 days ago

      And if you get physical for the right side, you’ll get a pardon. See J6, Daniel Perry, etc.

      Edit: spelling

    • Rhaedas@fedia.io
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      16 days ago

      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?

      • Bronzebeard@lemm.eeEnglish
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        16 days ago

        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.

    • CharlesDarwin@lemmy.worldEnglish
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      16 days ago

      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.