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Wednesday, April 23, 2025

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Anti-DEI order remains on pause

CHICAGO — A federal court in Illinois rejected the Trump administration’s motion to narrow or stay a nationwide injunction against an executive order requiring federal contractors and grantees to certify they do not operate DEI programs that violate anti-discrimination law. A recent Supreme Court decision limited injunctions covering nonparties, but halting enforcement against all federal funding recipients is the only way to prevent the order from hurting the suing nonprofit’s collaborative work with other organizations.

Read the ruling here.

Read our prior coverage of this group’s lawsuit here.

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