FEMA and the Department of Homeland Security can’t condition disaster-preparedness grants on cities’ compliance with anti-DEI mandates, a federal judge said.
Judge Manish Shah of the US District Court for the Northern District of Illinois granted a preliminary injunction to Chicago and other cities, barring the US government from requiring grant recipients to certify they don’t promote diversity, equality, and inclusion in violation of federal anti-discrimination laws, or that they don’t engage in discriminatory prohibited boycotts when they accept funds.
The administration didn’t provide any explanation for implementing the new conditions, Shah found, making the conditions “arbitrary and capricious under ...
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