Alabama Can Enforce Ban of DEI Programs in Public Schools (1)

The Alabama State Conference of the NAACP and local university professors failed to secure early relief in their legal challenge to the state’s law banning public funding of diversity, equity, and inclusion programs.

The plaintiffs didn’t show a likelihood at this stage that the law, Alabama Senate Bill 129, violates the First Amendment and the 14th Amendment due process clause of the US Constitution, Chief Judge R. David Proctor of the US District Court for the Northern District of Alabama said in a Wednesday order. The court denied the plaintiffs’ motion for a preliminary injunction.

This decision comes about a ...