Attorney General’s DEI Memo Isn’t What it Seems: Noah Feldman

On her first day in office, Attorney General Pam Bondi issued a memo calling for a report on how the Department of Justice can target big companies’ diversity, equity and inclusion programs. The memo is unlikely to generate a significant number of lawsuits against real-world companies. But it will speed up the already-underway process of corporations abandoning or at least re-branding their DEI efforts.

Bondi’s DEI memo is one of a raft of opening day salvos on subjects like criminal investigations of lawyers who criminally investigated President Donald Trump, holding up federal grants for so-called “sanctuary cities” that refuse to cooperate ...