College diversity officers, restaurant labor activists, professors and politicians who lead and benefit from federally funded diversity, equity and inclusion programs aren’t sure what “DEI” means.
On Monday they sued President Trump and 11 federal entities, from the Department of Education to the National Science Foundation and Office of Management and Budget (OMB), to block Trump’s executive orders against DEI programs and in favor of “merit-based opportunity,” calling them unconstitutionally vague and censorious.
“In the United States, there is no king,” says the complaint by the National Association of Diversity Officers in Higher Education, American Association of University Professors, Restaurant Opportunities Centers United and Baltimore Democratic Mayor Brandon Scott and his city council.
