IBM Diversity Efforts Targeted by Stephen Miller’s Legal Group

Former Trump adviser Stephen Miller’s America First Legal has requested the nation’s top federal civil rights agency investigate IBM Corp. over diversity-focused employment and executive pay policies that the conservative group says comprise illegal sex and race discrimination.

In a letter to the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission on Tuesday, AFL cited video footage of IBM’s CEO Arvind Krishna and IBM subsidiary Red Hat Inc. CEO Paul Cormier’s statements connecting executive pay to advancing diversity, equity, and inclusion practices as proof for its claims of violations of Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964.

The complaint adds to the ...