A Dangerous New Supreme Court Case Could Open the Door to Prosecutions for DEI

Supreme Court may be about to hand the Trump administration its biggest weapon yet in the fight against diversity.

Frida Ghitis : The Trump administration has used various levers of governmental power to attack recent efforts to diversify institutions.

She says a low-profile case, Kousisis v. United States , could offer the federal government a plausible path to criminally threaten some number of individuals and entities that maintain DEIA policies and practices.

Ghitis says federal antidiscrimination law, counterintuitively, prohibits DEIA practices.

If Kousisis allows the federal government to launch fraud prosecutions over contract terms with no economic value, we should expect the Trump administration to try to threaten, if not institute, criminal prosecutions as part of its fixation on DEIA .

The case represents a ticking time bomb in the administration’s aggressive fight against diversity, equity, inclusion, and accessibility.