Florida Bar Diversity Funding Cut by State Supreme Court (2)

The Florida Bar has been forbidden from spending money on diversity initiatives by the state Supreme Court, in the state’s most high-profile move away from “Diversity and Inclusion” programs since a recent US Supreme Court ruling banning race-based affirmative action.

The bar will end its Diversity and Inclusion Committee and may request no other funds for diversity programs, the organization said.

As “an official arm of the Florida Supreme Court, the Bar operates under the court’s exclusive authority and direction,” the bar said in a statement.

Instead of funding diversity initiatives, the bar will use that money to fund “a ...