‘In the name of diversity’: Law firms sanctioned by Trump accused of illegally discriminating against whites

One of the fights leftists have brought against President Donald Trump is over his decision to sanction those law firms that actively engaged as players in fabricated agendas that were launched against him.

Specifically, during the 2016 race law firms abandoned their role as legal advisers and actively coordinated with Hillary Clinton’s campaign to falsify claims against Trump to try to derail his political campaign, specifically the lies created for the Russia collusion campaign.

Now an organization serving some of those firms, and the firms themselves, may be in trouble for discriminating based on race.

A report in the Federalist describes how the group Americans for Equal Opportunity has filed a race discrimination complaint with the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission.

The complaint, on behalf of three white members, accuses the group called Sponsors for Educational Opportunity and some of the legal giants in Washington of illegally discriminating against white Americans “in the name of diversity,” the report said.

SEO places interns with “some of the nation’s largest law firms,” and the charge alleges misbehavior by the SEO and its 44 partners, “some of the country’s most well-heeled law firms.”

The accusation charges the suspected organizations violated Title VII.

“Title VII is the federal statute which prohibits employers, as well as employment agencies, from discriminating in employment on the basis of race, sex, color, national origin, or religion. And the EEOC charge filed by Americans for Equal Opportunity, a recently formed membership organization dedicated to ‘promot[ing] and protect[ing] the right of the public to be free from discrimination on the basis of race,’ details how SEO allegedly violated Title VII through its discriminatory law fellowship program,” the report explains.

Some of the evidence comes from SEO’s own boasting, where it talks about being “the nation’s premier summer internship and training program targeting talented African American, Hispanic and Native college students.”

Previously, it talked about being the “nation’s only summer internship program for pre-law students of color.”

The report cited the sponsoring firms as “a veritable ‘who’s who,’ of the nation’s top law firms.”

Involved were extraordinarily high compensation levels, up to $4,000 a week, as well as offers not available to many others.

Further, the SEO suddenly became “coy” about its discrimination in recent years, abruptly changing its web language “to conceal its discriminatory practices, replacing the term ‘diverse’ with ‘underserved,’ and describing programs as open to ‘all,'” the report said.

The topic isn’t entirely new. The EEOC’s acting chair, Andrea Lucas, wrote a couple dozen law firms in March asking for information about their DEI agendas, including the SEO work, but critics of President Trump claimed it was a targeting of the law firms that were politically opposed to the president.

At that time, the leftists in the American Bar Association said the letters meant nothing.

The report continued, “The AEO’s charge of discrimination, brought on behalf of its members, cannot be so glibly dismissed. And with an official charge of discrimination filed against SEO and the law firms, the EEOC now has a statutory duty to investigate.”

The report noted a finding of race discrimination, which evidence suggests could be obvious, “will vindicate Trump against charges his administration is targeting political enemies.”