There’s a hustle afoot around the Supreme Court’s recent decision striking down affirmative action, Students for Fair Admissions v. Harvard. In a blog post titled “America First Legal Puts Woke Corporations… on Notice,” America First Legal, an organization headed by former Trump advisor Stephen Miller, asserts that “all DEI programs” are now “illegal.” Miller offers pro bono legal help against “institutions perpetuating woke fascist bigotry against our fellow citizens.”
No, SCOTUS Did Not Make Your Company’s DEI Programs Illegal
How to separate the legal implications from the politics.
August 29, 2023
Summary.
The most effective approach to DEI is also the best for controlling legal risk: Focus your DEI program on interrupting the bias that’s constantly transmitted through basic business systems. This is how most corporate DEI programs, which typically focus on trainings and tweaks to organizational systems to level the playing field, already work.
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