Fifteen state attorneys general urged a group of top corporate leaders on April 15 to drop their companies’ diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) programs.
Such programs are “divisive” and “unlawful,” the state officeholders, led by Andrew Bailey of Missouri, said in correspondence addressed to Business Roundtable.
The six-page letter was signed by 14 other state attorneys general, including James Uthmeier of Florida, Chris Carr of Georgia, David Yost of Ohio, and Todd Rokita of Indiana. All of the attorneys general are Republicans.
“The Business Roundtable has decided that racist DEI initiatives are more important than [the] free market,” Bailey told The Epoch Times....
