A federal trial judge in California has issued a preliminary nationwide injunction blocking the enforcement of President Trump’s controversial Executive Order (E.O.) 13950, which prohibits covered federal contractors and subcontractors from conducting workplace training programs that include race or sex “stereotyping or scapegoating.”
The ruling comes in the wake of a lawsuit seeking to block enforcement of the E.O. brought by a group of non-profit community advocacy organizations and consultants challenging the constitutionality of E.O. 13950 under the U.S. Constitution’s First Amendment “Free Speech” Clause and the Fifth Amendment’s “Due Process” Clause.
In an opinion issued in Santa Cruz Lesbian and Gay Community Center et al v. Trump et al, Case No. 5:20-cv-07741 (N.D. Cal. December 23, 2020), federal Judge Beth Labson Freeman of the Northern District of California concluded that the plaintiffs had demonstrated that their constitutional challenges to the E.O. are likely to succeed and that they would suffer irreparable harm in the absence of a preliminary injunction.
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