Former Colorado Corrections Sergeant Josh Young is suing the Centennial State over divisive and bigoted “Diversity, Equity and Inclusion” training that created a hostile and discriminatory workplace, further ratcheted-up racial tensions in the prison, and recklessly undermined the morale, cohesiveness and safety of the facility’s guard force and inmate population.
While it may seem obvious that scholastic achievements should be merit-based rather than race-based, that isn’t true at numerous American colleges and universities. Schools of higher education have for too long been permitted to legally discriminate against qualified student applicants in order to benefit less-qualified applicants of favored racial or ethnic groups.
A Colorado law that imposes a sweeping statewide ban on the use of Native American names, images and sports team “mascots” beginning in 2022 is being challenged in federal court as unconstitutional, by a Native American group that believes such names, themes and iconography should be permitted, as long as they are used respectfully and with historical and regional authenticity.
Those who wrote the law believed good intentions gave them a pass on thinking these matters through more carefully — a misjudgment that laid the predicate for the legal challenge we bring today.
On August 20, Mountain States Legal Foundation filed a brief with the U.S. Supreme Court that asks the question: Can you trust the Biden Administration?
Can the Biden Administration be trusted to defend the signature achievement of the previous administration’s Secretary of Education, Betsy DeVos? It doesn’t take a crystal ball to see that is doubtful.
The Biden administration seems in no hurry to have the courts hear from white farmers and ranchers who were excluded from receiving post-pandemic farm loan forgiveness because of the color of their skin. And with good reason. Preliminary rulings suggest that their claims of equal protection rights violations have sufficient merit that they’ve stopped the controversial payouts in their tracks. The administration suffered another legal setback Monday, when a judge denied the government’s request for a stay in Holman V. Vilsack, meaning the case can move forward.
Case Summary As part of the American Rescue Plan Act of 2021 signed by President Biden, Congress created a farm loan forgiveness program for non-white farmers. Under the program the…