{"id":2194668,"date":"2024-03-07T08:45:02","date_gmt":"2024-03-07T13:45:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/judge-nukes-bidens-discriminatory-dei-business-program\/"},"modified":"2024-03-07T08:46:16","modified_gmt":"2024-03-07T13:46:16","slug":"judge-nukes-bidens-discriminatory-dei-business-program","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/judge-nukes-bidens-discriminatory-dei-business-program\/","title":{"rendered":"Judge slams Biden&#8217;s biased DEI business program"},"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\">14<\/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%2Fjudge-nukes-bidens-discriminatory-dei-business-program%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=2194668&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--><p><!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC \"-\/\/W3C\/\/DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional\/\/EN\" \"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/TR\/REC-html40\/loose.dtd\"><br \/>\n<?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><html><body><\/p>\n<div class=\"article-content\">\n<h2>In a \u2064Landmark Ruling, Judge \u2064Declares Biden Administration&#8217;s Minority \u2064Business Development Agency Unconstitutional<\/h2>\n<p>In a huge victory against\u200b the racist diversity, equity, and inclusion\u200b agenda, a federal judge has ruled that the Biden administration&#8217;s \u2062Minority\u200b Business\u200c Development\u200c Agency (MBDA) has long \u200bviolated the Constitution&#8217;s equal protection guarantees by punishing &#8220;disfavored&#8221; groups \u2014 in this case, white \u200dsmall business owners.<\/p>\n<p>In his groundbreaking ruling, U.S. District Court Judge Mark\u2062 Pittman for the \u200bNorthern District of Texas likened the agency&#8217;s use of race-based criteria in \u200dawarding taxpayer-funded assistance to the\u200d discriminatory actions of 19th-century American businesses that hung &#8220;Irish Need Not Apply&#8221; signs or &#8220;Blacks Need Not Apply&#8221; placards during the Jim Crow era.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote\">\n<p><strong>&#8220;While the Agency&#8217;s work may help alleviate opportunity gaps faced by MBEs [minority business enterprises], two \u2063wrongs do not make \u2064a \u2062right. \u2063And the MBDA&#8217;s racial presumption\u2063 is a wrong.&#8221;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p> <cite><strong>\u2014 U.S.\u200c District Court Judge Mark Pittman<\/strong><\/cite><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Pittman granted summary judgment for two of the three plaintiffs \u2064and issued a permanent injunction barring the \u200bfederal government \u2063from using the agency to award benefits based\u200d on\u2062 race.<\/p>\n<h3>Lawsuit Filed on\u200b Behalf of Entrepreneurs<\/h3>\n<p>The lawsuit was filed last \u200byear \u200bby the \u200dWisconsin Institute \u200dfor Law and Liberty on behalf of three entrepreneurs from Florida, Texas, and Wisconsin who \u2064sought\u2064 assistance\u200c from the Minority Business Development Agency.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Jeffrey Nuziard, Ph.D., is a veteran, \u200dresearcher, and CEO of Sexual Wellness Centers of America in Texas, according\u2064 to the lawsuit.<\/li>\n<li>Christian Bruckner,\u200d &#8220;a disabled immigrant who fled Communist \u2062Romania in the\u200d 1970s to seek a better\u2062 life in America,&#8221; operates a federal contracting\u2062 business.<\/li>\n<li>Matthew Piper, \u2064who\u200c &#8220;grew up \u200cin extreme poverty in Colorado,&#8221; owns an\u200d architectural firm in Wisconsin.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&#8220;Plaintiffs\u2064 hail from \u200ddifferent states and have \u2064different circumstances, \u2063backgrounds, \u200cand \u2063businesses. But they have\u2063 much in common: they \u200call worked hard to get where they\u200c are, they all overcame obstacles in\u200c pursuit of the American Dream, they all\u200c care deeply for their businesses, and they all\u200b wanted \u2014 but couldn&#8217;t obtain \u2014 assistance from the same federal program,&#8221; court documents state.<\/p>\n<p>They&#8217;re also white, and didn&#8217;t fit the race-based preferences \u2064of the federal agency.<\/p>\n<p>The \u2064MBDA&#8217;s vision statement, the \u2063ruling asserts, resonated with the entrepreneurs. \u2062It aims\u200b to help\u200c deliver &#8220;economic prosperity for \u2063all American business enterprises.&#8221; Created more \u2063than a half-century \u200dago and made permanent through \u200bthe $1 trillion infrastructure legislation of 2021, MBDA&#8217;s vision came\u200d with a catch. It doesn&#8217;t \u2063serve <em>all<\/em> American business enterprises, it serves &#8220;all American <em>minority<\/em> business\u2063 enterprises.&#8221; As the complaint notes, MBDA\u200d uses a list\u200b of preferred races and ethnicities\u2062 in handing out \u200dbenefits. Anyone \u200cwho doesn&#8217;t fit into those groups, whether whites \u200bor others, \u200cis considered not &#8220;socially or economically disadvantaged&#8221; and is ineligible for benefits, the\u200b lawsuit argued.<\/p>\n<p>In defending the agency,\u2064 the\u200d Department of Justice argued that any &#8220;member of a group not presumed socially or economically disadvantaged may petition for\u200c a presumption of disadvantage, regardless of race,&#8221; CNN reported.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;And while the application\u2064 process may vary\u200c for individuals not\u200b included in the MBDA presumptions, there is a pathway for them\u200d to access the services of the MBDA Business Centers through an assertion of individual social or economic \u2063disadvantage,&#8221; the DOJ argued.<\/p>\n<p>The lawsuit charged\u200c that the \u2064agency&#8217;s discriminatory acts were similar to race-based affirmative\u200c action in college admissions, which the U.S.\u2064 Supreme \u200dCourt struck down last year.<\/p>\n<p>Rick Esenberg, president and general counsel of the Milwaukee-based Wisconsin Institute for Law and Liberty, said\u200b the\u200b federal government created a discriminatory \u2063agency that persisted for decades, and the\u2063 Biden administration reinvigorated \u200cit. The agency, Esenberg\u200b said, refused to help \u2064millions of businesses based on race.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Those \u2064days are\u200b now over,&#8221; \u200dthe attorney said. &#8220;Equality must be the law of \u200dthe land, \u2063and through the bravery and \u200bpersistence of our clients, we are closer to fulfilling that dream.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>In his ruling, Pittman, nominated to the bench by President Donald Trump, noted that what became \u2062the modern Minority Business Development \u200bAgency was launched on the day of \u2062his order 55 years ago by \u2064then-President Richard Nixon.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;To the extent the MBDA offers services pursuant to an\u200c unconstitutional presumption,\u2062 that&#8217;s \u2063fifty-five years\u200b too many. Today \u200cthe clock runs out,&#8221; the \u200djudge wrote. &#8220;Yesterday is \u2064not\u2064 ours to \u2063recover, but tomorrow is ours to win or lose.&#8221;<\/p>\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator\">    \t\t\t\t\t   \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n<p> rnrn  <\/p>\n<h2> How did the judge in this case compare the actions of the Minority\u2063 Business Development Agency to the discriminatory practices of American businesses during the Jim Crow era?<\/h2>\n<p><span>  Reading the article would \u2062come to \u2064understand that a federal \u2063judge has\u2064 declared \u2062the Biden administration&#8217;s Minority Business Development Agency (MBDA)\u200c unconstitutional.\u2062 The judge ruled that the agency&#8217;s use of\u2062 race-based criteria in awarding taxpayer-funded assistance violated the\u200b Constitution&#8217;s equal \u200dprotection guarantees.<\/p>\n<p>U.S. District Court\u2062 Judge Mark\u200b Pittman, in\u200c his groundbreaking ruling, likened the agency&#8217;s actions to the discriminatory actions of American businesses during the Jim\u2062 Crow era. He stated that the agency&#8217;s\u2063 racial\u2064 presumption is wrong, even \u2064though its\u2064 work may\u200c help\u2062 alleviate opportunity gaps faced by minority business enterprises (MBEs).<\/p>\n<p>The judge \u2062granted summary judgment for two of \u200cthe three plaintiffs\u2064 and issued a\u2064 permanent injunction barring the\u2063 federal government from using \u200cthe\u200c agency\u200c to award \u200bbenefits based\u2062 on race.<\/p>\n<p>The\u2064 lawsuit was filed by the Wisconsin \u2063Institute for Law and Liberty on behalf of three entrepreneurs from Florida,\u2064 Texas, and\u2063 Wisconsin. The plaintiffs\u2062 sought assistance from the MBDA but were\u200c denied\u200d because they \u200ddid not fit the race-based\u200b preferences \u200dof the agency.<\/p>\n<p>The plaintiffs, despite their different circumstances and backgrounds, share a common goal of\u2063 pursuing the American Dream \u200dthrough their businesses. They all worked hard to overcome \u2062obstacles but \u2064were \u2063unable\u2062 to obtain assistance\u200c from the same federal program due to their race.<\/p>\n<p>The ruling \u2063highlights \u200bthe MBDA&#8217;s vision statement, which aims to deliver economic prosperity for all American \u2062business enterprises. However, it restricts\u2063 its services to minority business enterprises. \u2064The complaint notes that the agency uses a list of\u2064 preferred races and ethnicities in handing out \u200bbenefits.<\/p>\n<p>The ruling\u2064 is seen as a victory against the \u200bracist diversity, equity, and inclusion agenda. It reinforces the importance of equal \u2063protection \u200dguarantees and the rejection of discrimination based on race.<\/p>\n<p>This landmark ruling has implications for the way government agencies and programs can allocate benefits and assistance. It challenges\u200c the use of race-based criteria and calls\u2064 for a \u2064more inclusive approach to supporting all American business enterprises, \u2064regardless \u200dof \u200crace\u2063 or ethnicity.<\/p>\n<p>Overall, this ruling serves as a \u2062reminder of the importance of upholding equal protection guarantees and promoting a fair \u2062and inclusive society that provides opportunities\u200c for all individuals, regardless of their background or race.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In a significant win against racist diversity efforts, a federal judge ruled that the Biden administration&#8217;s Minority Business Development Agency has violated equal protection rights by unfairly penalizing white small business owners. 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