by Nicholas Ballasy
The nonprofit organization Independent Women’s Forum (IWF) is preparing to sue the U.S. Secret Service over what it alleges are “arbitrary” diversity, equality and inclusion (DEI) guidelines at the agency.
According to a CBS report from last year, the agency adopted a goal of increasing female recruits to 30 percent of its workforce from the current 24 percent figure.
“In our country, it is illegal for the government to discriminate on the basis of sex. That is the Constitution’s 14th Amendment,” said May Mailman, director of the organization’s Independent Women’s Law Center, according to Fox News. “But also Title VII prohibits employers from discriminating on the basis of sex. And yet you have the Secret Service, of all agencies, saying that they want to have a 30 percent female quota.”
The Secret Service has come under intense scrutiny after two assassination attempts on former President Trump in Butler, Pennsylvania and Palm Beach, Florida.
Former President Trump applauded the agents who responded to the shooting in Butler when he was on-stage at the outdoor rally.
“Every one of them – there wasn’t one that was slow. A woman who was on my right, she was shielding me,” he said at a rally in Minnesota in July. “Beautiful person – she was shielding me, everything she could, and she got crushed. And she got criticized by the fake news because she wasn’t tall enough.”
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Just the News senior correspondent Nicholas Ballasy has been breaking news for more than a decade in the nation’s capital and questioning political leaders about the most pressing issues facing the nation. Since 2008, Ballasy has interviewed former President Bill Clinton, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, former President Donald Trump, Sen. Mitt Romney, Sen. Bernie Sanders, Sen. John McCain, former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, former Vice President Al Gore, former House Speaker Newt Gingrich and more.
Photo “Secret Service Agent” by U.S. Secret Service.
