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Majority of Americans approve of Trump’s response to anti-ICE protests in Minneapolis: Harvard poll
While Democrats are trying to beat down President Donald Trump over lethal shootings by federal agents in Minnesota, a new poll shows that a slim majority approves of his response to the protests.
The online poll was conducted by the Center for American Political Studies at Harvard and the Harris Poll and found that of all categories listed, Trump’s favorability was highest over the Minneapolis anti-ICE response.
A large majority, 60%, said they believed Democratic politicians had encouraged resistance to ICE officers performing their job.
Fifty-one percent of respondents approved of Trump on that issue, 47% approved of his fighting crime in the cities, and 46% said they approved of the president on immigration.
He scored least favorably on the issues of tariffs and handling inflation, at only 39% approval.
The president’s overall approval rating slipped to 45% in the poll after reaching a high of 52% in Feb. 2025.
A large majority, 60%, said they believed Democratic politicians had encouraged resistance to ICE officers performing their job, and only 43% said they supported politicians encouraging that resistance. Fifty-seven percent said they opposed politicians encouraging resistance.
The respondents were polled after the lethal shooting of Alex Pretti, an ICU nurse and anti-ICE agitator who interrupted federal agents while armed with a gun. Respondents could have also known about the lethal shooting of Renee Good, who blocked ICE agents with her vehicle and swerved into one agent after being confronted.
Border Patrol Chief Gregory Bovino left Minneapolis after the shootings, and the president sent Tom Homan, his border czar, to oversee the operation and report directly to the president.
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The polls also found that the Republican Party’s approval rating slid to 44% after reaching 52% in the last year. While Democrats enjoyed their highest approval rating in about the same time, they only reached 44% approval.
Both had a higher approval rating than Congress, at 35%.
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Pro-ICE billboard in San Francisco is making liberals implode: ‘It made me sick to my stomach’
A billboard message in support of Immigration and Customs Enforcement in San Francisco has outraged many on the left just ahead of the Super Bowl weekend.
The ad in the famed Fisherman’s Wharf shows an ICE agent with the caption, “Defensive player of the year.”
‘It puts fear in me — that it’s desensitizing people to think that it’s OK to be people hurting people.’
One woman reacted negatively to the billboard in comments to KABC-TV.
“It made me sick to my stomach,” said Karen Guerrero, a woman from Chicago. “It puts fear in me — that it’s desensitizing people to think that it’s OK to be people hurting people.”
A group called American Sovereignty took responsibility for the sign.
“We are saluting the brave Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents who work every day in defense of America with billboards and ads in San Francisco,” the group said on social media.
The sign was excoriated online as well.
“Who allowed this to happen? This is Sickening,” one user said.
“F**K ICE aka NEOGESTAPOS NO ONE IS ILLEGAL ON OCCUPIED LAND,” another message reads.
“Patriots or Brownshirt thugs?” another critic said.
Others said they supported the message.
“They have a job to do too. That’s it,” said Scott Yurt, also from Chicago. “I don’t have a problem with them.”
More than 1.3 million visitors are expected in the area for the highly anticipated championship match between the New England Patriots and the Seattle Seahawks at Levi’s Stadium.
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Epstein files EXPOSE Bill Gates — but the media is silent
Unless it’s President Donald Trump or a conservative on the chopping block, the media is likely to be silent about it, which is being demonstrated now with one of the latest Epstein files revelations — and it involves Bill Gates.
“I regret to inform you, I’m going to give you a headline that is rather disgusting, but I’m going to have to give it to you anyway,” BlazeTV host Sara Gonzales says, before reading the Daily Mail headline, “Jeffrey Epstein says Bill Gates caught sexually transmitted disease from ‘Russian girls’ … then suggested secretly slipping Melinda antibiotics, new emails in DOJ release claim.”
“It is so crazy to me that the man who wanted to force everyone, wanted to make sure you got your injection, wanted to make sure that, you know, everyone was masked. I can’t remember how many times Bill Gates went out on CNN and MSNBC, and he was like, ‘You better mask up,’” Gonzales says.
“Bill, you could have covered yourself up just the same way you’re asking people to cover their mouths. You could have gave your ding-a-ling a mask, maybe prevented yourself from giving your wife an STD,” she laughs.
In draft emails that Epstein sent to himself, he accused Gates of contracting the sexually transmitted disease and then asking for Epstein’s help.
“I cannot believe that you have chosen to both disregard and discard our friendship developed of over the last 6 years,” one email begins.
“TO add insult to the injury you then subsequently with tears in your eyes, implore me to plase delete the emails regarding your std, your request that I provide you antibiotics that you can surreptitiously give to Melinda, and the description of your penis. You also made it clear to me that I am not to refer to [REDACTED] as that is another topic that must remain between the two of us,” the email goes on.
Epstein went on to explain in another email that he was resigning from his position with BG3 and the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation.
“During the past few weeks I have been caught up in a severe marital dispute between Melinda and Bill,” Epstein wrote.
“From helping Bill to get drugs, in order to deal with consequences of sex with Russian girls, to facilitating his illicit trysts, with married women, to being asked to provide adderall for bridge tournaments … I feel I owe it to my friends and future colleagues to admit a moral failure, to ask forgiveness and to move on with my life,” he continued.
While the document dump made it clear that Gates is at the very least an adulterer, it also gave Gonzales a better idea of who Epstein was — especially considering how much “pizza” was mentioned in the emails.
“I might do a deep dive at some point, but for now I will just say, there are a lot of mentions of pizza and going to go get pizza and leaving the island to get pizza and come back. And there are a lot of weird code words in there that I’m still putting together,” Gonzales says.
“I don’t think it was that Jeffrey Epstein really loved pizza as much as those emails claim. I think we all know what the code is. And obviously with the document dump, it’s going to take a while to put all of these pieces together,” she continues.
“One thing is clear: He was a really bad guy,” she adds.
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All optics? Democrats claim ‘historic victory’ flipping deep-red Texas Senate district — but here’s what they omit
Democratic allies and legacy media outlets are celebrating Taylor Rehmet’s victory in Texas Senate District 9’s special runoff as a historic upset for Republicans — but they fail to note that Rehmet will likely never even cast a vote unless he wins again later this year.
Mark Lucas, the founder of Veteran Action, stated that a progressive political action committee funded by George Soros spent $500,000 to flip the Texas Senate race in a district where President Donald Trump secured a 17-point victory.
‘The Democrats were energized. Too many Republicans stayed home.’
“My org @VeteranAction is incredibly important to counter the left’s attempt to chip away at the veteran vote — something the GOP cannot afford to take for granted,” Lucas wrote. “Meanwhile, the radical left is investing heavily to recruit veteran candidates to retake the House in 2026. They will quickly impeach Trump and obstruct our AMERICA FIRST agenda.”
George Soros’ Open Society Foundations provided $2.58 million in grants to VoteVets Action Fund from 2019 to 2024, according to the foundation’s website. The grants included support for the organization’s advocacy of “progressive, diplomacy-first foreign policy,” “congressional war powers,” and “preventing executive abuse.”
On January 31, VoteVets announced in a post on X that it was proud to have endorsed and financially supported Rehmet with “over $500K” in an independent expenditure.
Rehmet defeated Republican opponent Leigh Wambsganss, securing a 14-point victory.
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VoteVets celebrated Rehmet’s victory in flipping the district blue in the special runoff election, noting that a Democrat had not been elected in decades.
Legacy media outlets and Rehmet’s Democratic supporters have portrayed the election as a massive political upset for Republicans.
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Despite the substantial funds the Democrats invested in the race, it seems these efforts were primarily for show, as the seat will be contested again in November 2026 for a full four-year term. Further, the Republicans in the Texas Senate hold a solid majority, and the legislature is not in session until January 2027.
The Texas Scorecard noted that the special election runoff saw low turnout, with just under 95,000 ballots cast, representing roughly 15% of all registered voters.
Rehmet and Wambsganss are expected to run against one another again in the November election.
Wambsganss called the January 31 election results “a wakeup call for Republicans in Tarrant County, Texas, and the nation.”
“The Democrats were energized. Too many Republicans stayed home. … Mr. Rehmet and I will face each other again in November, and I fully expect the results to be different,” she stated. “The dynamics of a Special Election are fundamentally different from a November General Election.”
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Libs and RINOs fall for third Epstein nothingburger — schizo tips and golf course lies backfire bigly on Trump haters
Last Friday, the Department of Justice released another round of Epstein-related documents, videos, and images, some of which accuse President Trump, whose name appears thousands of times, of egregious crimes, including sexual assault of underage girls, sexual misconduct involving minors at events/parties, threatening to kill children, and involvement in Epstein’s sex-trafficking activities.
One particular FBI-compiled spreadsheet summarizing unverified public tips and allegations regarding President Trump has amassed tens of millions of views on X alone.
“People were claiming, like, ‘Finally, we have a smoking gun on Trump,’ … but the problem with that claim is that it’s just, like, not true at all,” BlazeTV host John Doyle scoffs.
He explains that anyone can file a report with the FBI, which keeps meticulous records of every piece of information — true or not — it receives. The viral document with all the salacious allegations against President Trump is exactly that — records of unverified claims.
“Like, if I file a report today saying that I saw Hillary Clinton shape-shift into a lizard person and board a UFO, that doesn’t mean it’s true,” he laughs. “It just means that I told the FBI that. Maybe I believed it was true; maybe I wanted to sow seeds against people I don’t like. Whatever. The point is, it goes on the record.”
“A low-info, maybe low-IQ schizophrenic, just bored — I can see how that kind of person could read these reports and not know that they contain unsubstantiated information, unsubstantiated allegations,” he adds.
One of the allegations that’s garnering a ton of attention, for example, accuses President Trump of funding or hosting underage sex parties at a Trump-owned golf course in Rancho Palos Verdes, California, around 1995-1996, with extreme claims of some victims being murdered and buried behind the facility.
However, President Trump didn’t purchase the golf course in question until 2002. Further, in the FBI tip summary document, there is a note next to this golf course report stating: “Complainant was spoken to and deemed not credible. Additional research showed 3 separate incidents involving police which requested in mandatory psychiatric evaluations.”
Even still, “that did not stop tons of liberals [and] retarded right-wingers from claiming that Trump was somehow involved in this, like, sex trafficking, rape murder ring out of one of his golf courses,” Doyle sighs.
But the golf course report isn’t even the most ridiculous accusation some people are interpreting as undisputed fact.
For example, one alleged male victim referenced in the documents made a number of wild claims, one of them being that while on a boat with Epstein, his feet were cut with a scimitar that miraculously left no scars. He also claimed that he witnessed babies being dismembered and eaten and that he was raped by Jeffery Epstein, George H.W. Bush, and Bill Clinton.
However, a note in the report shows that the FBI agents who assessed this complainant described him as emotionally unbalanced, unemployed, living with his mother, and having ingested hallucinogenic mushrooms. They ultimately recommended dismissing the case because he could offer no evidence, corroboration, witnesses, or supporting details.
“The retard right and the liberals see these emails, and they’re like, ‘See! We freaking told you Jeffrey Epstein was eating babies, and Trump was friends with him,’” but they fail to read “the next part, [where] it says it’s literally not true,” Doyle says.
Trump, whom Doyle calls “a media genius,” knew all along that this was bound to happen. He was well aware that releasing the files would ignite hysteria in “low-info people,” who would see his name in wild, unverified claims and assume they’re reading facts.
This is why Democrats pushed so hard for the Epstein files to be dropped, Doyle argues.
They may package their petitioning as genuine concern for the abuse of children, but that falls flat when you consider that their party platform is built on “the abuse of children — whether directly because of stuff like the transgender grooming or indirectly by the facilitation of mass third-world migration, which famously participates in things like trafficking children [and] sexually abusing children,” he declares.
“Is it just the same thing that it’s always been, which is anything to attack Trump because Trump is literally the only thing standing in between the global leviathan that is the left and American patriots?”
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ICE rounds up kidnapper and child predator: ‘Thugs have no place in our communities’
A kidnapper and a child predator were apprehended by Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents Monday, according to a press release obtained by Blaze News.
The Department of Homeland Security, which has been tracking and sharing the “worst of the worst” immigration enforcement arrests at wow.dhs.gov, reported that ICE has nabbed more “heinous criminals.”
‘Seventy percent of ICE arrests are of illegal aliens charged or convicted of a crime in the US.’
“While sanctuary politicians and Hollywood were vilifying our law enforcement, our officers we were arresting kidnappers, pedophiles, and drug traffickers,” DHS Assistant Secretary Tricia McLaughlin said.
The DHS highlighted four of ICE’s arrests from Monday.
The department stated that federal immigration agents captured Armando Miguel Hernandez-Valdez, an illegal immigrant from Mexico. Hernandez-Valdez was previously convicted in St. George, Utah, for kidnapping, possession of a controlled substance, and escape.
Armando Miguel Hernandez-Valdez. Image source: Department of Homeland Security
ICE nabbed Carlos Martinez, a Salvadoran national with a prior conviction in Dallas County, Texas, for aggravated sexual assault of a child under 14 years old.
Carlos Martinez. Image source: Department of Homeland Security
Immigration officers captured Freddy Railandy Medina-Cruz, an illegal immigrant from the Dominican Republic who was previously convicted for crimes in multiple states, including drug trafficking in Massachusetts, fraud in Michigan, and re-entry of a removed alien in Florida.
Freddy Railandy Medina-Cruz. Image source: Department of Homeland Security
The DHS also highlighted the arrest of Jianqiao Lu, a Chinese national who was convicted of criminal possession of an assault weapon in New York. According to a 2023 article from the Hudson Valley Post, Lu initially faced a 113-count felony indictment after police allegedly discovered over a dozen illegally owned firearms.
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Jianqiao Lu. Image source: Department of Homeland Security
“These thugs have no place in our communities. Seventy percent of ICE arrests are of illegal aliens charged or convicted of a crime in the U.S.,” McLaughlin stated. “This statistic doesn’t even include foreign fugitives, terrorists, and gang members who lack a rap sheet in the U.S. With every arrest, we are making America safe again.”
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This pastor is leading the ‘Christian’ anti-ICE movement — with near-death threats?
Inflammatory rhetoric on the left is getting worse, and former Pastor John Pavlovitz’s recent Substack article titled, “A pastor’s warning: We’re not in a civil war, but a Christian nationalist holy war — and they must not win,” could not make that any clearer.
“Conservative white Evangelicals need to be stopped,” one excerpt Pavlovitz proudly posted begins, before he accuses conservative white evangelicals of being “unmatched in their fervor, ferocity, and organization” as “religious extremists.”
“If allowed to continue to hold their death grip on all three branches of Government, Conservative Christians will render this nation unrecognizable. LGBTQ people, Muslims, women, people of color, immigrants, and non-Christians will never have equality under the law again,” he warned.
BlazeTV host Allie Beth Stuckey is rightfully disturbed by Pavlovitz’s piece and points out the glaring flaws in his argument.
“Does democracy mean people who I like are elected? Like, I just want to be clear about that,” Stuckey comments on “Relatable.” “He says we have a ‘death grip’ on all three branches of government. Well, Donald Trump was elected by popular and electoral vote. So, what happened there? Why is it a ‘death grip’ just when the people that you didn’t vote for get elected? Do you believe in democracy or not?”
Pavlovitz went on: “Full-blown theocracy is the plan, and trust me when I tell you that we won’t recover from it if they are given greater power or prolonged influence. If we fail in opposing their Christo-fascist agenda both in the streets and at the polls, they will have a political power that will render every election null and void, and we will never have a voice again in our lifetimes.”
“This is the kind of stuff that inspires, very tragically, people like Renee Good and Alex Pretti to go out into the streets and to bust the taillights of ICE officers and try to run over another ICE officer, because people believe stuff like this without any citation or any source,” Stuckey comments.
Pavlovitz even goes on to accuse white evangelical Christians of being the “source of everything afflicting our nation,” which includes all of the “violence, chaos, dehumanization, and suffering.”
“I just want to remind you that evangelical Christians, Christians who pray every day, Christians who go to church every week, that statistically we give the most in charity, that we adopt the most children, that we offer the most volunteer service hours every year. This is the hallmark of Christianity,” Stuckey says.
But it gets even worse.
“America is not in a Civil War; we’re in White Christian Nationalists’ grim and loveless holy war. All people of faith, morality, and conscience need to stand together and push them back into the hell they came from,” Pavlovitz concludes.
“You cannot get any stronger language that seems to be a death threat without coming out and saying it,” Stuckey says. “Like, that is some pretty radical stuff that is getting almost 50,000 likes on Instagram.”
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Video: All-out brawl erupts between adult male with MAGA hat and more than a dozen apparent HS students at ICE protest
Cellphone videos caught the moment when an all-out brawl erupted between an adult male with a MAGA hat and over a dozen apparent high school students at an Immigration and Customs Enforcement protest Monday afternoon in Texas.
The Buda Police Department said a Hays County Sheriff’s Office school resource officer at Moe and Gene Johnson High School in Buda indicated that students were conducting a “walkout” protest on RM967. Buda is about 20 minutes southwest of Austin.
‘Hey, you want another a**-beating, come on out!’
Law enforcement personnel responded to the area to provide safety and security for pedestrians and motorists, police said.
But police added that Buda officers were dispatched to the intersection of RM967 and FM1626 for a fight in progress just before 3 p.m.
Arriving officers were notified that a female juvenile on the sidewalk and an adult male in a vehicle were engaged in a verbal argument, police said, adding that the argument escalated into a physical altercation involving multiple people.
You can view a clip of the brawl in KXAN-TV’s video report about the altercation; it shows what appears to be at least a dozen apparent high school students punching and kicking the adult male, knocking him to the ground, and even putting him in a headlock until he’s able to get up and retreat to his vehicle. There is no audio.
Both primary parties involved were identified, the situation remains under investigation, and no arrests have been made at this time, police said.
A Hays Consolidated Independent School District spokesperson told KXAN-TV that the district is aware of the video of the fight but said police are handling the investigation since the incident happened off campus.
Image source: Buda (Texas) Police Department
Buda Police on Tuesday told Blaze News they expect to make an arrest or arrests but have no timeline for when that will happen. Blaze News asked police if the adult male involved in the fight is a teacher — due to numerous social media posts indicating he is — but police replied, “Not that we’re aware of.”
One crucial element police confirmed to Blaze News is that the adult male involved in the fight did indeed have a red MAGA hat on his person during the altercation.
There are a handful of videos of the fight apart from the clip included in KXAN’s video report — and they are linked in comments under the police department’s Facebook post about the brawl.
As police noted, the adult male was in a vehicle when he verbally argued with the juvenile female — and then things got physical. Indeed one clip recorded from a distance shows what appears to be the adult male on the street swinging at a female as they move from the street to the sidewalk and to the grass.
A second clip recorded very close to the fight shows what appears to be the adult male holding a MAGA hat while swinging at a female and pushing her backward as she fights back; she momentarily grabs the MAGA hat before she falls to the grass.
A third clip includes what the KXAN video shows — except with audio. Those fighting and watching the brawl are heard yelling, “What the f**k?” and “Get him!” and “F**k ICE! You’re a bitch!” and “F**kin’ kill yourself!”
Once the adult male is back in his vehicle — and his MAGA hat is back in his possession — one individual from the crowd is heard yelling at him, “Hey, you want another ass-beating, come on out!” The adult male eventually puts the MAGA hat on his head.
What isn’t clear is why the adult male got out of his vehicle in the first place.
When Blaze News asked police if the adult male indicated why he left his vehicle and physically fought the juvenile female, police replied that it’s still under investigation.
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Ex-husband of Jill Biden charged in the murder of his second wife
77-year-old William Stevenson, the ex-husband of former first lady Jill Biden, was taken into custody Monday and charged in the death of his second wife.
A grand jury indictment filed in Delaware said that Stevenson is facing a first-degree murder charge after 64-year-old Linda Stevenson was found dead on Dec. 28 in their home in New Castle County.
William Stevenson had previously said of Linda, ‘She’s the greatest thing in my life.’
William Stevenson was married to Jill Tracy Jacobs for five years beginning in 1970, until she met then-Sen. Joe Biden in March 1975. Stevenson says she had an affair with Biden and a civil divorce was granted to the couple two months later. She and Biden were married in 1977.
Stevenson then met and married his second wife, Linda, and was married to her for nearly four decades until her death.
Police said they were called to the home on a report of a domestic dispute and found Linda Stevenson unresponsive in the living room. They were unable to revive her, and she was pronounced dead at the scene.
Her body was turned over to the Delaware Division of Forensic Science, which has not yet released a determination of cause of death.
William Stevenson failed to post a $500,000 bail and is being held at the Howard Young Correctional Institution in Wilmington.
Police said Stevenson’s arrest was the result of a “extensive weeks-long investigation” into his wife’s death.
Stevenson had been a supporter of former President Barack Obama but later became a fan of President Donald Trump. In 2023 he called Trump “a president that I love and respect” and accused the “Biden crime family” of unfairly targeting Trump.
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Stevenson also grew critical of Jill Biden as Joe Biden’s mental diminishment became more obvious.
“I just don’t understand why she is so adamant about defending him and keeping him in the race since it appears that he’s struggling,” he said. “It appears that he’s struggling with everybody these days.”
William Stevenson had previously said of Linda, “She’s the greatest thing in my life.”
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My court fight over DEI at Arizona State isn’t culture-war noise
“Who will rid us of this meddlesome philosopher?”
Arizona State University hopes the Arizona Supreme Court will. I’m confident that my case against required diversity, equity, and inclusion training raises issues far larger than one professor or one ideological program. Fundamental questions about employee rights, public accountability, and the rule of law hang in the balance.
If I succeed in showing that ASU bears legal responsibility — and that employees can hold it accountable — the implications reach far beyond one HR program.
Why would the largest state university in the country defend mandatory DEI training in court? Why would it spend thousands — likely tens of thousands — defending its “inclusive communities” training, a program that teaches employees about the alleged moral and social failures of “whiteness” and “heteronormativity”?
The answer defies common sense. Yet ASU presses forward. In doing so, it has turned what many dismiss as a culture-war skirmish into an employment-rights case with statewide consequences.
Most people hear “DEI” and instantly map the political lines. This case deserves a different reaction. Required ideological training should make any employee — left, right, or indifferent — pay attention.
First, the training relies on racial essentialism. It instructs ASU employees to view themselves and others primarily through skin color, then assigns moral weight and collective guilt on that basis.
Second, it attacks traditional Christian moral teaching, especially marriage as the union of a man and a woman.
Either flaw should have pushed administrators to retire the program long before I raised formal objections.
A third issue should unite every employee, regardless of where they stand on DEI: ASU treated this as an employment matter. The university did not admit error, revise the program, and move on. It hired Perkins Coie to defend racial essentialism. Yes, Perkins Coie — the firm widely associated with the Hillary Clinton-era Steele dossier controversy. ASU employs a full team of in-house attorneys. Why pay a nationally prominent and politically charged firm to defend a training program many already viewed as controversial — and, I argue, unlawful?
ASU’s posture gets stranger. The university has since taken down the required training, yet it continues paying lawyers to defend it in court. When this ends, Arizona lawmakers and taxpayers will want a number: How much did ASU spend on legal fees, and which administrators approved the contracts?
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ASU’s legal strategy aims at dismissal. The university claims I lack standing. Put plainly, ASU argues that an employee cannot hold his public employer accountable for violating state law. At that point, the dispute stops being about DEI and becomes about every employee in Arizona. If ASU wins at the Arizona Supreme Court, employees across the state lose a crucial tool for legal accountability.
Professors to my political left may sneer at my critique of DEI. They should still worry about the precedent.
Imagine a scenario pulled from their nightmares: A future administration takes over ASU and imposes mandatory ideological training from the opposite end of the political spectrum — required ICE-themed training, or MAGA-themed training. If that training violated Arizona law, those same professors would demand the right to sue. ASU’s argument would bar them. This case concerns enforceable employee rights, not just contemporary politics.
ASU’s first bid to dismiss the case failed. A lower court rejected the university’s argument. ASU appealed, and the appellate court sided with the university. That posture put the case on a path to the Arizona Supreme Court.
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Two facts matter here. The Arizona Senate and the state representative who authored the law I claim ASU violated have filed an amicus brief supporting my position. Their message is simple: A public employee has standing to hold a public employer accountable for breaking the law. The statute prohibits the kind of racial blame and collective guilt that ASU’s training promoted. The principle should not require explanation: Don’t assign moral fault to entire groups based on skin color.
So why does ASU defend this?
Because ASU does not view this fight as one training module that can be swapped out and forgotten. Race-based blame sits near the center of the contemporary left’s approach to education. If I succeed in showing that ASU bears legal responsibility — and that employees can hold it accountable — the implications reach far beyond one HR program. ASU’s initiatives aimed at combatting “whiteness” would come under scrutiny. Its embedded social justice goals face legal challenge and public examination. Students could follow with suits over race blame in a “decolonized curriculum.”
“Who will rid us of this meddlesome philosopher?” ASU really hopes the Arizona Supreme Court will.
Every employee in Arizona should watch what happens next. The outcome will determine whether public institutions answer to the law — or whether employees must comply silently, no matter what ideology administrators impose from above.
