From the Editorial Board: Typically, big law firms specialize in sending threatening letters. But given how the U.S. Supreme Court upended a string of precedents in its recent term, it should come as no surprise that law firms these days receive them.
Cartoonist Scott Stantis on the GOP's overreach into Fortune 100 companies' diversity initiatives.
In letters to 51 major law firms earlier this month, U.S. Sen. Tom Cotton warned that they and their clients who maintain diversity, equity and inclusion initiatives are courting trouble.Cotton, a Republican from Arkansas, informed some of the world’s highest-powered lawyers that Supreme Court conservatives had votedat U.S. colleges and universities — just in case they missed that much-publicized decision.
You can tell the status quo is alive and well when a senator from a former Confederate state feels emboldened to threaten law firms that themselves have mostly failed to advance attorneys of diverse backgrounds into higher-level jobs. Black attorneys, for instance, represent just 2.5% of all law-firm partners, according to the Minority Corporate Counsel Association. Other surveys put the number closer to 2%.
In a sign of the times, the letters arrived a week after GOP Sen. Tommy Tuberville of Alabama doubled down on his defense of white nationalism, arguing with a TV host who said a white nationalist is a racist, by definition. “Well, that’s your opinion,” the former football coach-turned-politician shot back, saying he thinks of them simply as his fellow Americans. He eventually tried to backtrack, after criticism from other Republicans.
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