DEI Officers Claim Trump Orders Threaten Free Speech in New Suit

President Donald Trump’s executive orders targeting allegedly discriminatory DEI programs in business, higher education, and elsewhere should be blocked for infringing on First Amendment and due process rights, a group of challengers said in a new federal lawsuit.

Groups representing university diversity officers, college professors, and restaurant workers, along with Baltimore city officials, sued Trump and multiple federal agencies Monday in the US District Court for the District of Maryland.

They claim a pair of executive orders targeting diversity, equity, and inclusion programs are so broad and overly vague that they chill the plaintiffs’ free speech under threat of both ...