CEO Applauds Supreme Court Grant of Affirmative Action Cases

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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASEContact: Devon WesthillMonday, January 24, 2022(904) 683-6060 (Falls Church, VA) Today, the Supreme Court of the United States granted certiorari in the consolidated cases of Students for Fair Admissions (SFFA) v. Harvard and SFFA v. UNC as the Center for Equal Opportunity (CEO) urged in the amicus briefs it joined in each case. This means that for the first time in years the Court will review the legality of race preferences in college admissions. CEO Chairman Linda Chavez said today: “These cases give lie to the notion that racial preferences hurt no one and redound only to the benefit …

HUD and the Disparate Impact Rule

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From The Federalist Society On June 25, 2021, President Biden’s newly appointed Housing Secretary Marcia Fudge proposed to rescind a Secretary Carson-era disparate impact rule designed to implement the Fair Housing Act.  In its place, HUD would reinstate the 2013 Discriminatory Effect Standard because the 2013 rule “better states Fair Housing Act jurisprudence and is more consistent with the Fair Housing Act’s remedial purposes.”  By the time notice and comment ended on August 24, 2021, over ten thousand public comments had been submitted.   Critics of Secretary Fudge’s proposed rule, including Ranking Member Senator Pat Toomey, argue that the change not only flouts the Supreme Court’s decision in Texas …

Biden Administration Opens Investigation Into Texas’ Mask Mandate Ban In Schools

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The Biden Administration has launched an investigation into Texas’ school mask mandate ban but does giving parents the right to choose what’s best for their child go against federal law? Lars speaks with Devon Westhill, President and General Counsel for the Center for Equal Opportunity, and Federalist Society Legal Expert. Listen Here Related posts: TESTIMONY OF ROGER CLEGG, PRESIDENT AND GENERAL COUNSEL, CENTER FOR EQUAL OPPORTUNITY BEFORE THE U.S. COMMISSION ON CIVIL RIGHTS REGARDING THE PROPOSED EMPLOYMENT NON-DISCRIMINATION ACT CEO’s Hot Summer Canceled at the EEOC (again) CEO Welcomes Devon Westhill as New President and General Counsel

American Bar Association Ready To Mandate ‘Diversity Training’ – Will All Lawyers Need To Be ‘Woke’?

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Devon Westhill of the Center For Equal Opportunity discusses the ABA’s move considering requiring ‘diversity training’ – will this mean all future lawyers will need to be “woke”? Related posts: Politicized external review panels as unguided “diversity” missiles: California university administrators remain ultra-slow learners TESTIMONY OF ROGER CLEGG, PRESIDENT AND GENERAL COUNSEL, CENTER FOR EQUAL OPPORTUNITY BEFORE THE U.S. COMMISSION ON CIVIL RIGHTS REGARDING THE PROPOSED EMPLOYMENT NON-DISCRIMINATION ACT When Academic Achievement Means ‘Acting White’ Roger Clegg testifies regarding H.R. 40

CEO Warns Colleges on Title IX Sexual Misconduct Proceedings

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(Falls Church, VA) The Center for Equal Opportunity has launched a campaign to caution American colleges and universities against developing improper campus sexual misconduct regimes. The communication offers a number of best practices that schools should implement to align with judicial decisions that have been released affirming due process elements of the 2020 U.S. Department of Education Title IX regulation. These best practices relate to procedural due process, impartiality and bias, burdens of proof, standards of evidence, and the right to representation, live hearings, and final reports. In the initial round of mailings, CEO has contacted one school in each …

Linda Chavez moderates panel on Critical Race Theory

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From the The Federal Society’s Regulatory and Transparency Project: A new panel discussion on Critical Race Theory. Linda Chavez, Chairman of the Center for Equal Opportunity moderates the program and is joined by Peter Wood, President of the National Association of Scholars and author of 1620: A Critical Response to the 1619 Project, and John Agresto, former President of St. John’s College in Santa Fe. Related posts: The Nitty Gritty of Diversity Meaningful Numbers Achieving, or Not, Critical Mass When Academic Achievement Means ‘Acting White’

What’s the EEOC So Afraid Of?

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NCLA’s Executive Director and General Counsel, Mark Chenoweth, chats with Devon Westhill, President and General Counsel at Center for Equal Opportunity. Mr. Westhill was recently invited to testify before the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) on the topic of “Civil Rights Implications of the COVID-19 Pandemic.” As the former Deputy Assistant Secretary for Civil Rights for the Office of the Assistant Secretary for Civil Rights, Mr. Westhill was eminently qualified to speak on the most important civil rights issue facing the EEOC: discrimination by employers on the basis of race or sex. Mr. Westhill sent a courtesy copy of …

CEO in the News – 2021

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Why would a Democrat President urge SCOTUS to refuse a case about a minority? Lars Larson – 12/15/21 Asians to be considered the same as white people when it’s convenient for the left Lars Larson – 11/15/21 The Myth of White Privilege American Thinker – 10/30/21 Biden officials find racism throughout government, plan ways to promote ‘equity’ Washington Times – 10/24/21 Expert panel discusses voting rights and wrongs Daily Trojan – 10/13/21 Biden Administration Opens Investigation Into Texas’ Mask Mandate Ban In Schools KTSA – 9/22/21 The American Bar Association Goes Woke iHeartRadio – 9/17/21 Back to the Drawing Board …

CEO in the News – 2019/2020

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Voters say no to discrimination Laurinburg Exchange – 12/2/20 Biden is set to ‘undo the Trump years’ with civil rights pivot The Straits Times – 11/12/20 THE NEXT FOUR YEARS IN CIVIL RIGHTS Powerline – 11/12/20 Good News from California Indeed National Review – 11/4/20 Linda Chavez on the Future of the Republican Party Wall Street Journal (Subscription required) Coalition Letter Urging Senators To Confirm Amy Coney Barrett IWF – 10/8/20 Campaign Corner: Who Should Vote In OHA Elections? Civil Beat – 10/7/20 The Rise of the Latino Republican National Review- 9/18/20 Affirmative action: Challenge to Harvard’s admissions practices hits …

A conversation on Thomas Sowell

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This post originally appeared on the Manhattan Institute Website CEO Chairman Linda Chavez interviews Wall Street Journal columnist and CEO board member Jason Riley on his new biography of Thomas Sowell.  With a career spanning more than a half-century and contributions to fields ranging from economic history and social inequality to political theory, race, and culture, Thomas Sowell is one of the greatest social theorists of our age. His bold and unsentimental assaults on liberal orthodoxy have endeared him to many readers but also enraged fellow intellectuals, the civil-rights establishment, and much of the mainstream media. The result has been …