Article originally appeared on thefederalist.com.
On Feb. 16, President Joe Biden signed Executive Order 14091, titled “Further Advancing Racial Equity and Support for Underserved Communities Through the Federal Government.”
Biden’s sweeping order multiplies and muscles up government diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) diversity-crats — the diversity-industrial complex — and makes their power bases virtually permanent.
The order also bestows special status and benefits on favored groups, called “underserved communities,” while excluding everyone else. Why now?
Perhaps the administration is anticipating adverse Supreme Court decisions, expected in June, in two cases challenging racial preferences at Harvard University and the University of North Carolina (Harvard/UNC).
As reported previously, Students for Fair Admissions (SFFA) is representing higher-scoring Asian and white students who sued the schools for discriminatory admission policies.
The Department of Defense is not a party to the litigation, but in oral arguments last October, U.S. Solicitor General …
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