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Edward Blum Breaks Up Bigot Brigade... For Now

Third time's the charm.

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After Morrison & Foerster, Perkins Coie, and Gibson Dunn bent the knee to the American Alliance for Equal Rights, great white hope Edward Blum has announced victory over the law firms that made victims out of straight white men.

Here’s the gloating fresh from Bloomberg:

Affirmative-action foe Edward Blum said a group he started that files lawsuits challenging diversity programs has no new plans to sue any more law firms.

“There’s nothing left for us to do in that space,” he said in an interview.

Law firms are no longer raising red flags with their diversity, equity and inclusion programs, he said. However, a researcher for his group still combs websites of hundreds of firms looking for any evidence of programs he views as illegal, he said.

Just to be clear, the “nothing left to do in that space” coupled with the “I still have a couple lackeys on the books” is just Blum’s version of boxer trash talk. Don’t believe me? Please find the difference:

In short, the wounds from SFFA v. Harvard are still fresh. Despite the expected outcome of that case, Asian students are still worried about how their applications will stand up. Programs meant to bring equity to historical injustices and do things like close the Black maternal mortality gap are being targeted as illegal discriminators. And even though Blum is taking a hiatus from his shenanigans, goofies like Stephen Miller are still finding the time to sue Pop-Tarts for being gay at NYU’s law review or something.

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The diversity spite suits don’t look to be ending any time soon.

Blum Says He’s Done Suing Law Firms as Winston Yields on DEI [Bloomberg Law]

Earlier: The Slippery Slope Of Ending Affirmative Action Has Moved On To Its Next Target: Women And ‘Proxies For Diversity’

Chris Williams became a social media manager and assistant editor for Above the Law in June 2021. Prior to joining the staff, he moonlighted as a minor Memelord™ in the Facebook group Law School Memes for Edgy T14s.  He endured Missouri long enough to graduate from Washington University in St. Louis School of Law. He is a former boatbuilder who cannot swim, a published author on critical race theory, philosophy, and humor, and has a love for cycling that occasionally annoys his peers. You can reach him by email at cwilliams@abovethelaw.com and by tweet at @WritesForRent.

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