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Medical student sues Minnesota for racial quotas on ‘health equity’ council

Three days short of 45 years before the Supreme Court largely invalidated race-based affirmative action in college admissions as a violation of equal protection under the 14th Amendment, it struck down even more blatant racial quotas in medical school admissions. Yet activists keep finding racial quotas in even government organizations, where they seem hardest to defend, raising […]

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Trump issues executive order to ban gender-affirming care for minors 

President Trump on Tuesday signed a sweeping executive order meant to broadly restrict access to gender-affirming care for transgender children and teenagers younger than 19, inching closer to fulfilling a key campaign promise to ban treatments that he and his administration have cast as experimental and dangerous, in conflict with major medical associations and transgender health […]

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Trump DEI crackdowns lauded for bringing merit back to medicine: ‘Make healthcare great again’

President Trump is waging war on the diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI) philosophy entrenched in various U.S. entities, signing an executive order scaling back the practice as he encourages companies in the public and private sectors to prioritize merit in the workplace. “It’s just enormous, and I think the president is really, really going to make healthcare great again,” […]

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Biden embraced diversity efforts. Trump has moved to demolish them.

Presidents Donald Trump and Joe Biden couldn’t be further apart on values that once were considered foundational American ideals — but no longer are. While the country never fully embraced or implemented diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI), those stood as vital principles and goals to guide the nation. Not now, thanks to Trump and his aggressive, methodical, […]

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Do No Harm v. Dr. Brooke Cunningham

Public advisory boards for government agencies are commonplace across the country, typically helping state agencies make informed decisions to carry out their public policies and priorities.  The Minnesota Health Equity Advisory and Leadership (HEAL) Council is one such board. HEAL makes recommendations on how to implement the Minnesota Department of Health’s equity plan into its […]

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Lawsuit challenges DEI-driven racial quotas for Minnesota state board

A new federal lawsuit in Minnesota is challenging the racial quotas for membership on the state’s Health Equity Advisory and Leadership, or HEAL, Council, an advisory board tasked with addressing “inequities” in public health policies. In the suit, Do No Harm, a nonprofit organization of medical professionals, argues the quotas violate the equal protection clause of the […]

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Trump orders federal DEI staff be put on leave immediately

(The Center Square) – President Donald Trump ordered that starting Wednesday, all federal staff working on Diversity, Equity and Inclusion activities will immediately be put on paid leave. That announcement came via a memo from the Office of Personnel Management, essentially the federal government’s human resources department. According to the memo, all DEI offices will […]