Chicago and St. Paul, Minn., are suing the Justice Department over the agency’s requirement that cities not promote public safety programs that boost diversity, equity, and inclusion.
The policy prevents the cities from being able to accept grants for issues like hiring more police officers and supporting the homeless, the cities said in a lawsuit filed Wednesday in the US District Court for the Northern District of Illinois.
The two cities are fighting what they claim are requirements that they won’t operate programs “having components relating to” DEI the Trump administration deems unlawful, and that they’ll agree in advance “to ...
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