US Looks to Join Challenge to Law Facing DEI Pushback (Correct)

The US Department of Justice moved to join a challenge to an Illinois law that requires nonprofits to disclose demographic data about their employees.

The lawsuit from the American Alliance for Equal Rights argues that the state law, which went into effect Jan. 1, effectively pressures nonprofit organizations to discriminate when choosing board members since race and sexual orientation information about those employees must be made public.

The disclosure law “is not only wrong but also violates the Equal Protection Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment,” officials within the DOJ said in a Tuesday filing in the US District Court ...