Donald Trump's Deputy Chief of Staff, Stephen Miller, has a legal group that became known for suing former President Joe Biden's administration, and those lawsuits have continued despite Trump being elected, although with a different goal in mind.
Axios reported on Saturday that Miller "is setting policy from inside the White House" while the law group he founded, America First Legal, "is shaping policy from the outside, through legal complaints and lawsuits against corporations and even the Trump administration itself."
"The law group is a key part of Miller's larger mission to make diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI) programs illegal across the country — based on the argument that they violate the civil rights of white people," according to Axios' weekend reporting, which describes exactly how "Miller has amassed power in the new administration."
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Axios goes on to say that, "In recent weeks America First Legal has been aggressively filing complaints and lawsuits to try to make the federal bureaucracy comply with the new president's executive orders."
The group has even been using petitions to purportedly spur real change.
"In early February, the group petitioned the Department of Education to investigate five school districts in Virginia for allegedly not complying with Title IX, which does not allow sex-based discrimination," according to Axios. "Less than two weeks later, the Civil Rights office of the Education Department announced it was opening an investigation into the school districts."
In cases of America First Legal suing Trump's administration, the outlet reports:
"Late last month, America First Legal petitioned the Labor Department to investigate whether outside federal contractors were in compliance with Trump's executive order banning federal contractors and subcontractors from 'allowing or encouraging ... workforce balancing based on race, color, sex, sexual preference, religion, or national origin,'" the report says. "The group singled out contractors such as Lyft, Meta, Paramount, Twilio and others."
