Agencies, Contractors Suspend Diversity Training To Avoid Violating Trump Order – By Melissa Block (NPR) / Oct 30 2020
Three civil rights groups filed a federal class-action lawsuit Thursday challenging the Trump administration’s recent crackdown on diversity training.
The NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund, National Urban League and National Fair Housing Alliance call President Trump’s Sept. 22 executive order “chillingly punitive” censorship that violates guarantees of free speech, equal protection and due process.
Trump’s executive order prohibits certain diversity training that the administration says amounts to “divisive, anti-American propaganda.”
A few weeks ago, I BANNED efforts to indoctrinate government employees with divisive and harmful sex and race-based ideologies. Today, I've expanded that ban to people and companies that do business…
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) September 22, 2020
In the five weeks since the order was signed, critics say it has had a widespread chilling effect as federal agencies, the military, government contractors and grant recipients scramble to figure out how to comply.
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