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From The Hill: A federal judge on Friday declined to block the enforcement of key provisions in President Trump’s executive orders involving diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI) and gender in a challenge by three civil and human rights organizations.
U.S. District Judge Timothy Kelly denied the advocacy groups’ request for a preliminary injunction, which would have prohibited the Trump administration from implementing parts of three executive orders against the challengers.
The judge said they failed to establish standing for half of the challenged provisions, and on the other provisions, their constitutional claims “falter for various reasons.”
“The motion before the Court is not about whether DEI policies, however defined in a given context, are good public policy. Nor is it about whether specific DEI initiatives comply with antidiscrimination law,” Kelly wrote in a 58-page order. “Instead, it is about whether Plaintiffs have shown that they are entitled to a preliminary injunction prohibiting enforcement of the executive orders at issue.
In their lawsuit filed earlier this year, the National Urban League, National Fair Housing Alliance and the AIDS Foundation of Chicago claimed that Trump’s DEI orders violate their First Amendment rights and limit their ability to provide critical services.
ABOUT THIS JUDGE: Timothy Kelly, 55 or 56, is a U.S. district judge of the United States District Court for the District of Columbia. He was nominated by President Donald Trump in June 2017 and confirmed by the U.S. Senate in a 94-2 vote, in September 2017.
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