Civil rights groups sue Trump over anti-DEIA executive orders
Three civil rights organizations filed a federal lawsuit Wednesday charging that three of President Trump’s executive orders attacking DEIA in the federal government hinder their ability to help marginalized communities.
A trio of civil rights organizations filed a federal lawsuit Wednesday charging that three of President Donald Trump’s executive orders attacking diversity, equity, inclusion and accessibility in the federal government violate their free speech rights and hinder their ability to help marginalized communities.
Through Trump's orders barring references to transgender people or support of DEIA programs within the federal government, public funding for several nongovernment organizations, including the three plaintiffs, are at risk of being cut.
As a result, the civil rights organizations — the National Urban League, the National Fair Housing Alliance, and AIDS Foundation Chicago — said in their lawsuit that they will be less able to help "people of color, women, LGBTQ people, and/or people with disabilities overcome systemic barriers to access housing, education, employment, and healthcare stemming from discrimination, biases, and inequalities.”
Lambda Legal and the Legal Defense Fund, which are representing the civil rights organizations, said in a separate statement that the “orders will severely limit the organizations’ ability to provide critical social and health services.”
Two of the orders specified in the lawsuit are the “Ending Radical and Wasteful DEI Programs and Preferencing” and the “Defending Women From Gender Ideology Extremism and Restoring Biological Truth to the Federal Government,” which Trump signed on Jan. 20, his first day back in office.
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