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Dear CEO supporters, They don’t call it March Madness for nothing. This year March arrived with a flurry of activity at the Center for Equal Opportunity as we waged on multiple fronts our relentless battle against race-based policies and discrimination. As this busy month comes to end, we want to update you on our recent efforts. DELIVERING OUR MESSAGE TO CONGRESS On March 1, CEO President and General Counsel Devon Westhill was invited to testify at the House Judiciary Subcommittee on the Constitution, Civil Rights, and Civil Liberties. CEO has a proud history of testifying before Congress on key civil …

Dear CEO supporters, When the Center for Equal Opportunity welcomed new leadership a year ago, we promised you CEO would not just continue our many critical battles in the fight against race-based policies in government, education, and employment, but also take on important new challenges as well. Our staff and board have been busy ensuring we keep that promise and want to update you on those efforts. Inaugural Young Legal Fellows Program This month, CEO announced the launch of our new Civil Rights Fellowship. The first-of-its-kind program is being led by CEO president Devon Westhill, who has much experience in …

Dear friends, Happy New Year! We at the Center for Equal Opportunity hope you had a joyous holiday season to cap off 2021, and that you are now ready—as we are—to jump into the adventures that await in 2022. Today we celebrate one of our nation’s heroes, Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. While a complex public figure, Dr. King persistently advocated for justice, righteousness, and the realization of the American promise of equal treatment under the law. In the face of the fiercest racial bigotry and social and political opposition, Dr. King made possible the foundation for an American racial and civil …

Dear friends of CEO, Election Day came and went this week in a number of states including ours in Virginia. It was particularly gratifying that many conservative candidates focused on the harm Critical Race Theory and other race conscious ideologies are doing in our schools. Since its inception, CEO has promoted color-blind equal opportunity and opposed race-conscious policies, and we are now in the forefront of the fight against CRT. CEO chairman Linda Chavez has taken our message on the road the last several weeks, delivering the keynote speech at the Texas Christian Development Network in Houston, participating as a …

Dear CEO Supporters, Labor Day marks the unofficial end of summer but at the Center for Equal Opportunity, our work never ends. Just this week, we launched a campaign to caution American colleges and universities against developing improper Title IX campus sexual misconduct procedures. We contacted schools in every federal judicial circuit including D.C. With students back at most colleges and universities this and next week, our hope is that schools will heed our warning on developing procedures that both protect survivors of sexual misconduct and provide vital due process protections. You can read more about our important new campaign here. …

Dear CEO supporters, July turned out to be a busy—and successful—month in the Center for Equal Opportunity’s fight defending the principle of equality under the law. With its 2020-2021 term ending, the U.S. Supreme Court issued its last two opinions in cases in which CEO filed amicus briefs. In Brnovich v. Democratic National Committee, CEO argued that Section 2 of the Voting Rights Act guarantees that voters must be given an equal opportunity to vote regardless of their race or ethnicity, but it does not require a particular racial outcome in voting. The Court’s 6-3 majority made precisely the point …

Dear CEO supporters, Summer is officially here and things are heating up at the Center for Equal Opportunity. We’d like you to join the fun as CEO president and general counsel Devon Westhill is headlining this week’s online event sponsored by the New Civil Liberty’s Alliance. The event— titled “What’s the EEOC So Afraid of?“—takes place this Wednesday, June 23, at 4:30 p.m ET and you’re invited. Just click here and sign up, registration is free. More on the Wine & Cheesed series event from the NCLA: “NCLA’s Executive Director and General Counsel, Mark Chenoweth, chats with Devon Westhill, President and …