{"id":2030642,"date":"2023-09-13T14:19:01","date_gmt":"2023-09-13T18:19:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/new-college-of-florida-trustee-dares-biden-to-put-me-in-prison-for-dei-investigation\/"},"modified":"2023-09-13T14:21:17","modified_gmt":"2023-09-13T18:21:17","slug":"new-college-of-florida-trustee-dares-biden-to-put-me-in-prison-for-dei-investigation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/new-college-of-florida-trustee-dares-biden-to-put-me-in-prison-for-dei-investigation\/","title":{"rendered":"New College of Florida trustee challenges Biden to imprison them over DEI probe."},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">26<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fnew-college-of-florida-trustee-dares-biden-to-put-me-in-prison-for-dei-investigation%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=2030642&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><h2>Prominent Conservative Activist Challenges Biden Administration&#8217;s Civil Rights Investigation<\/h2>\n<p>Prominent conservative activist\u2063 and trustee of the New College\u200b of\u200b Florida, Chris Rufo, has\u200d taken a bold stance against the Biden administration&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/minneapolis-prosecutor-calls-for-prohibiting-police-traffic-stops-for-non-safety-related-infractions\/\" title=\"Minneapolis Prosecutor Calls for Prohibiting Police Traffic Stops for \u2018Non-Safety-Related Infractions\u2019\">civil rights investigation<\/a> into the school. During a roundtable discussion with Rep. Jim Banks and members of the House Anti-Woke Caucus, Rufo fearlessly declared\u2063 his willingness to face imprisonment rather \u2064than \u2064comply with \u2062the administration&#8217;s demands.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>&#8220;I&#8217;m \u200dunder a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/fbi-announces-investigation-into-andrew-brown-jr-shooting\/\" title=\"FBI Announces Investigation Into Andrew Brown Jr. Shooting\">federal civil rights investigation<\/a> \u2064right now because I refused to call the former DEI director of New College of\u2063 Florida a ze\/zir,&#8221; Rufo stated \u2063defiantly. &#8220;I&#8217;m not\u200b going to do it. If the Biden administration says that&#8217;s a \u2063civil rights \u2064violation, OK, fine, put me in prison. \u2062I don&#8217;t care.&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>The investigation was launched after a complaint alleged that the conservative administration \u2064at the \u2063Florida college\u200c had <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/new-college-of-florida-trustee-dares-biden-to-put-me-in-prison-for-dei-investigation\/\" title=\"New College of Florida trustee challenges Biden to imprison them over DEI probe.\">violated federal civil \u200brights law<\/a> by removing gender-neutral signage from bathrooms. Additionally,\u200b Rufo&#8217;s refusal to use &#8220;ze\/zir&#8221; pronouns when referring to\u200c the college&#8217;s former dean of diversity, equity, and\u200c inclusion further fueled the investigation.<\/p>\n<p>Rufo and a group of trustees, appointed by Gov. Ron \u2063DeSantis, have been tasked with transforming the public college into a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/desantis-barnstorms-the-great-lakes-state-to-test-the-political-waters\/\" title=\"DeSantis Barnstorms the Great Lakes State to Test the Political Waters\">classical liberal arts school<\/a>, inspired by the conservative Hillsdale College in Michigan. Their reforms have resulted in faculty departures but have also attracted record enrollment. However, the increased student population has posed challenges for on-campus\u200c housing.<\/p>\n<p>Rep. Banks, along with Reps. Harriet Hageman and Marjorie\u200d Taylor Greene, penned a letter demanding transparency from Assistant\u2064 Secretary for Civil Rights\u2063 Catherine Lhamon regarding the investigation. The lawmakers expressed their support for the New College employees&#8217; \u2063and trustees&#8217; free speech rights and their efforts to eliminate\u200d partisan administrative positions and divisive components of the curriculum.<\/p>\n<p>The Department of Education has been \u2064given until September 20th\u200d to provide details on the allegations being investigated at \u200cthe New\u200c College of Florida. The letter also seeks information\u2063 on the number of complaints and investigations against colleges and universities, as well as\u200b the Office for Civil Rights&#8217; stance on the use of &#8220;Ze\/Zer&#8221; pronouns as \u200devidence of discrimination.<\/p>\n<p>In response, a Department of Education spokesperson\u2064 stated, \u200c&#8221;As a\u200c policy, \u200cthe Office for Civil Rights does not comment on pending investigations.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/\">Click here<\/a> to read more from \u2064the Washington Examiner.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Prominent conservative activist Chris Rufo criticized the Biden administration&#8217;s civil rights investigation into New College of Florida. He expressed his readiness to face imprisonment during a roundtable discussion with Rep. Jim Banks (R-IN) and the House Anti-Woke Caucus.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2030643,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[538],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2030642","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-washington-examiner"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2030642","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2030642"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2030642\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2030643"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2030642"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2030642"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2030642"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}