William Jacobson, president and director of the Legal Insurrection Foundation, is warning conservatives to avoid being “complacent” with President Donald Trump’s fight against DEI (diversity, equity, and inclusion) policies within the federal government, noting how entities on the left are not easily going to “give up” the fight.
Within the first week of his administration, Trump signed an executive order terminating DEI policies in federal contracting, hiring, and spending, instead prioritizing merit-based hiring and performance evaluations.
The Trump administration believes that DEI initiatives “create and amplify prejudicial hostility and exacerbates interpersonal conflict” instead of “reducing bias and promoting inclusion,” a fact sheet from the White House explains.
Despite Trump’s executive actions taken against such initiatives, Jacobson, who founded Legal Insurrection in 2008 and also works as a professor at Cornell Law School, warned that the president’s actions taken against DEI have motivated the left to “dig in” and “fight.”
