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US taxpayers should not have to fund DEI in California

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Judge William Orrick strikes again. The Barack Obama-appointed judge for the Northern District of California has blocked the Trump administration from cutting off federal grants to cities that use discriminatory “diversity, equity, and inclusion” (DEI) policies.

Think about that for a minute. A judge has ruled that American taxpayers have to keep giving grants to local governments that practice DEI, after the executive branch has determined the policy is both “illegal and immoral.”

DEI uses race, gender, sexuality and a variety of other labels to distinguish among Americans. Under Joe Biden, it became a legally sanctioned (or legally required) form of reverse discrimination.

Orrick says that the federal grants — which pay for a variety of public services — have nothing to do with the administration’s effort to end DEI.

But money is fungible. If a local government has federal money to cover fire safety, it can spend its own money on other things — like racial bean-counting and left-wing propaganda.

Orrick says that Congress, not the president, should control........

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