Chicago – A federal judge has temporarily blocked the United States Department of Labor to implement parts of the executive orders of President Donald Trump aimed at curbing efforts of diversity, equity and inclusion between federal contractors and winners of subsidies.
Judge Matthew Kennelly, of the United States District Court, for the Northern District of Illinois, arrested the Department of Labor that they demanded that federal contractors or the winners of subsidies certify that they do not operate any program in violation of Trump’s anti-Edei executive orders.
That certification provision has intensified pressure on companies and other organizations to visit their Dei practices again because if the government determined that they violated the provision, they would be subject to paralyzing financial sanctions under the law of false claims.
The Thursday’s ruling is in response to a lawsuit filed by Chicago Women in Trades, a non -profit organization founded in 1981 that helps prepare women for work in qualified construction operations and has several contracts with the Labor Department. There was no immediate reaction of Chicago’s women in the trades to the order of Kennelly. The Department of Justice did not immediately respond to requests for comments.
A hearing on Chicago’s women in the offer of trades for a more lasting detention in Trump’s anti-dei executive orders is scheduled for April 10.
The demand for the organization is one of the various executive orders of Trump that are directed to Dei programs in private and public sectors.
Trump signed an order on his first day in the position that ordered federal agencies to terminate all subsidies or “equity” contracts. He signed a monitoring order that included a requirement that federal contractors and beneficiaries certify that they do not “operate any program that promotes Dei to violate federal nursing laws applicable.”
Kennelly’s decision is produced almost two weeks after The Court of Appeals lifted a broader national order against Trump’s anti-dei executive orders in a separate lawsuit in Baltimore. But Thursday’s ruling has a limited reach because Kennelly refused to extend the temporary restriction order to other federal agencies.
Chicago Women in Comercio, who presented his case against the Trump administration last month, argued that the president’s executive orders on Dei are so wide and vague that the organization had no way to guarantee compliance and, therefore, threaten its central mission.
Kennelly wrote that Chicago’s women in the trades, who are being represented by the Civil Rights Committee on Lawyers’ Rights according to the law, probably succeed in their arguments that parts of the executive orders are a violation of the rights of freedom of expression and are unconstitutionally vague.
Although the government argued that the certification willingness “implies only illegal DEI programs, has refused to shed any light on what this means. The answer is anything but obvious,” Kennelly wrote.
Kennelly wrote that he extended his order to all contractors of the Department of Labor and the beneficiaries of the subsidies because the vagueness of Trump’s executive orders, together with the threat of financial sanctions, would probably press organizations to stop the Dei programs in possible violations of the rights of freedom of expression.
Instead of facing potentially paralyzing sanctions, “it is likely that many of these beneficiaries will take the safest route and choose to simply stop talking about anything remotely related to what the government could consider to promote dei or equity. A national restriction order is appropriate to protect the beneficiaries who cannot pay the risks inherent in the hand that feeds them,” Kennelly wrote.
The judge also blocked the DOL to freeze or cancel any financing with the women of Chicago in the trades, and the Trump administration to pursue any application of the law of false claims against them.
During an audience on Tuesday, the Trump administration argued that Chicago’s women in the motion of relief of the trades were premature because their arguments depend on speculation on how executive orders will be implemented.
But Chicago Women in shops observed in the judicial presentations that it has multiple communications of the Department of Labor that indicates that they guarantee the fulfillment of both executive orders of Dei. The organization also said in the Court and has already lost a subcontract with a contractor who tries to comply with the executive order.
Chicago Women in Trades has a long history of association with companies, state and federal agencies and other stakeholders of the industry to provide guidance and training on best practices to recruit and retain women in trades, including training to combat bias and harassment that prevails in one of the industries most dominated by the men of the country.
His subsidy work with the federal government dates from the years, including two subsidies granted under the first Trump administration under the Women in learning and non -traditional occupationswhose objective is to expand the ways for women seeking to enter qualified trades.
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