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Challenged

Updated:

9/11/25

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This order reinstates "Schedule F" and makes it easier to fire career civil servants who provide critical services to all Americans.

By making it easier to fire career civil servants, this executive order significantly impairs our government's ability to provide essential services that millions of Americans rely on. Indeed, career civil servants are nonpartisan experts who help keep our food, medicine, transportation, and water safe; secure our public safety and our national security; deliver our mail; support our education and health care systems; and work in our court houses, our airports, our national parks, and so much more. This order could enable a political leader to replace these nonpartisan public servants with partisan ideologues.

This Notice terminates a TPS designation protecting hundreds of thousands of Venezuelans who are lawfully present in the United States from deportation.

The Biden administration designated Venezuelans for Temporary Protected Status (TPS) in 2021, and extended that designation in 2023, due to the "severe political and economic crisis" that had been occurring for years under the leadership of Nicolas Maduro. To terminate a TPS designation, the DHS Secretary must find that the conditions leading to the initial designation no longer exist. Here, Secretary Noem vacated the designation of TPS for Venezuelans without meeting that standard, and despite the fact that the State Department lists Venezuela as so dangerous that U.S. citizens should not travel there.

The President illegally fired two Democratic members of the EEOC allegedly for not "operating in a manner consistent with the objectives" of his administration.

The Equal Employment Opportunity Commission is an independent agency, historically led by five bipartisan commissioners, that enforces federal laws prohibiting workplace discrimination and promoting equal employment opportunities. The President fired two Democratic commissioners, claiming their leadership was not consistent with the priorities of his administration. The termination has been challenged in federal court.

Challenged

Updated:

9/10/25

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This order is another attack on diversity, equity, & inclusion initiatives in the federal government and a new attack on similar initiatives in private business & public education.

This is another anti-equity order from the Trump administration and goes further in several respects. It incorrectly claims that diversity, equity, inclusion, and accessibility initiatives in the federal government, the private sector, and public education violate civil rights laws. It revokes several longstanding executive orders intended to address discrimination within the federal government, including one dating back to 1965, and it requires all federal contractors and grant recipients to certify that they do not operate any programs promoting diversity, equity, and inclusion that violate any applicable federal anti-discrimination laws. In the private sector, the order directs the Attorney General to submit a report outlining a plan for misusing civil rights laws against companies that have equity initiatives, and it requires agencies to identify specific large companies, nonprofits, foundations, and associations for civil compliance investigations. The order also directs the Attorney General to work with the Secretary of Education to issue joint guidance to state and local educational agencies and higher education institutions on how to comply with federal funding requirements in light of the Supreme Court’s 2023 decision to hold two universities’ race-conscious admissions programs unconstitutional.

Challenged

Updated:

9/10/25

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This order seeks to significantly weaken the government's progress on equity programs that support historically underserved communities.

This order seeks to end all equity programs in the federal government, including those that aim to create a more level playing field for communities that have experienced racial or economic discrimination, and support for historically underserved communities of all kinds. It targets all agencies, departments, personnel, expenditures, federal contractors, and grant recipients that have any equity actions, initiatives, or programs. This will harm countless people who have faced discrimination and move our government away from equity and opportunity for all.

This order seeks to ban transgender girls from participating on girls' sports teams and from girls' locker rooms, and discourages trans inclusion in international competitions.

This executive order seeks to ban transgender girls from girls' sports teams and locker rooms in the name of protecting girls, but it does just the opposite. These bans harm all girls, including cisgender girls, by subjecting them to increased gender policing and arbitrary and invasive investigations. This order also harms intersex and nonbinary students as it increases surveillance of their bodies. The order directs the Secretary of Education to weaponize Title IX's protections against sex discrimination and bring enforcement actions against schools that allow transgender girls to participate on girls' sports teams or use girls' locker rooms, threatening the loss of federal funding for schools that do not comply. This is despite the fact that many federal courts have held that Title IX protects transgender students, and that the Supreme Court has held that discrimination on the basis of gender identity is a form of sex discrimination in an analogous civil-rights context. The order also directs the Secretary of State to rescind support for and participation in sports programs that allow trans women on women's teams, including the Olympics (which the United States is set to host in Los Angeles in 2028). And, it directs the Secretary of State to promote these discriminatory interests internationally, including at the United Nations.