Week in Review: Punished for opposing DEI?

Racial discrimination. Arbitrary quotas. Top-down mandates from above imposed by unelected bureaucrats. These are the dictates of Kentucky’s Council on Postsecondary Education—a powerful body that holds punitive sway over the state’s public colleges and universities.

An exclusive new Goldwater Institute report reveals the extent of the council’s power—including the ability to punish those who don’t comply with its arbitrary orders. It’s the latest example of divisive dogma being forced on America’s students through the nation’s higher ed system, even as Goldwater is spearheading the charge to defeat the discriminatory, politically charged tenets of Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion in state after state.

It’s simple: Taxpayer-funded discrimination has no place in higher education.

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Snitches Get…A Pat on the Back?

 The Gilbert, Ariz., Town Council wants neighbors to snitch on one another. Last month, the council passed an ordinance that encourages neighbors to report anything “unsightly” in their neighboring backyards, and allows for property to be inspected at any time, with or without the presence of the owners.

What counts as “unsightly”? Essentially, anything the town doesn’t believe looks nice.

The ordinance comes after Goldwater uncovered how Gilbert’s “Office of Big Brother” is weaponizing the government’s power to ensure conformity to leftist ideology. It all highlights an important truth: “It is in quiet town hall meetings where many freedoms slip by the wayside, which is why citizens must be vigilant in holding local government officials accountable,” Goldwater Staff Attorney Stacy Skankey writes.

Read more here.

WATCH: Liberty Prevails

Freedom was on the docket at the U.S. Supreme Court this year, and liberty prevailed.

“The Supreme Court struck a blow against the Administrative State”— the unelected bureaucrats who write rules with the force of law—by striking down judicial “deference” to federal administrative agencies, Goldwater VP for Litigation Jon Riches writes in the Wall Street Journal. The high court also “took the first step toward a rational approach to the problem of homelessness” by removing cities’ excuse for failing to enforce the law, Goldwater VP for Legal Affairs Timothy Sandefur adds in Fox News.

What does it all mean? During a special virtual event this month, Sandefur and Riches discussed this year’s most important cases and their ramifications for the future of liberty.

Watch the webinar here.