{"id":17565,"date":"2020-10-29T19:37:12","date_gmt":"2020-10-29T19:37:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/federaltimes\/uncategorized\/2020\/10\/29\/civil-rights-groups-sue-trump-administration-over-diversity-training-order\/"},"modified":"2026-08-08T04:46:20","modified_gmt":"2026-08-08T04:46:20","slug":"civil-rights-groups-sue-trump-administration-over-diversity-training-order","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/federaltimes\/management\/2020\/10\/29\/civil-rights-groups-sue-trump-administration-over-diversity-training-order\/","title":{"rendered":"Civil rights groups sue Trump administration over diversity training order"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The NAACP\u2019s Legal Defense Fund filed a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.naacpldf.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/1-Complaint-2.pdf\" target=_blank>lawsuit<\/a> in the U.S. District Court for the District of Colombia Oct. 29 on behalf of the National Urban League and National Fair Housing Alliance contesting the constitutionality of a September executive order restricting the content of diversity training for the armed forces and federal contractors.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The order, which followed from an <a href=\"https:\/\/www.federaltimes.com\/management\/hr\/2020\/09\/08\/trump-moves-to-end-un-american-diversity-training-for-feds\/\" target=_blank>initial memorandum<\/a> to cease all \u201cdivisive\u201d diversity and inclusion training in the federal workplace, creates a policy that the U.S. will not promote \u201crace or sex stereotyping or scapegoating in the federal workforce or in the uniformed services, and not to allow grant funds to be used for these purposes. In addition, federal contractors will not be permitted to inculcate such views in their employees.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">But the new class action lawsuit alleges that because of the order\u2019s broad scope and vague definitions of what constitutes \u201cdivisive concepts,\u201d it violates the First and Fifth amendments of the Constitution.<\/p>\n\n\n\t<aside class=\"smg-interstitial-link wp-block-smg-interstitial-link\">\n\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/federaltimes\/management\/hr\/2020\/10\/02\/opm-places-all-diversity-training-on-hold-pending-review\/\" class=\"smg-interstitial-link__inner\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"smg-interstitial-link__media\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"300\" height=\"210\" src=\"https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/GettyImages-472227510.jpg.jpg?w=300\" class=\"smg-interstitial-link__image wp-post-image\" alt=\"\" \/>\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"smg-interstitial-link__content\">\n\t\t\t\t<span class=\"smg-interstitial-link__kicker\">Related<\/span>\n\t\t\t\t<h3 class=\"smg-interstitial-link__title\">OPM places all diversity training on hold, pending review<\/h3>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p class=\"smg-interstitial-link__excerpt\">The Office of Personnel Management plans to review all diversity and inclusion training programs, before allowing agencies to continue with them.<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/a>\n\t<\/aside>\n\t\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cSpecifically we allege that by restricting and limiting speech about specific topics, viewpoints, opinions and beliefs, the order violates the First Amendment\u2019s protection against discrimination. The second claim is based on vagueness of the order \u2014 in violation of the Fifth Amendment of the Constitution \u2014 in which a federal law is unconstitutionally vague if it fails to provide a person of ordinary intelligence fair notice of what is prohibited, or if it is so standardless \u2014 as we allege this executive order is \u2014 that it encourages seriously discriminatory enforcement,\u201d said Janai Nelson, associate director counsel for the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund, in a Thursday press conference.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cOur third and final claim is rooted in the equal protection component of the Fifth Amendment\u2019s due process clause, which guarantees all persons equal protection of the laws and prohibits the government from treating persons differently on the basis of race, religion, national origin or alienage.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Much of the order restricts training that centers around implicit bias and privilege, as well as anything that implies that the United States is and was founded on inherently racist or oppressive principles.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In addition to prohibiting such training in the federal workplace and armed services, the order mandates that all federal contracts include provisions that prohibit the training for federal contractors and subcontractors, as well as federal grant recipients.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cWe work as a contractor for the federal government, and the essence of what we do is to seek to help marginalized communities, especially African Americans, to gain pathways into the economic mainstream of this nation,\u201d said Marc Morial, president and CEO of the National Urban League, at the press conference.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Part of the lawsuit includes claims that the National Urban League was not offered a recent extension on a federal contract because of that mission of racial advocacy and its contradiction with the executive order.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cWe think that these actions are all interrelated and are part of a broader effort to stifle the very knowledge that we\u2019ve been speaking of, and the history, and the truth-telling and efforts to ensure diverse and inclusive workplaces,\u201d said Nelson.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cIt\u2019s not only public employees and also federal contractors \u2026 it also applies to subcontractors and vendors whom the contractors may have agreements with,\u201d added Jin Hee Lee, senior deputy director of litigation at the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The groups also take issue with the order\u2019s creation of a hotline within the Department of Labor to take complaints and allegations that a contractor is using the kind of prohibited diversity training.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p 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