Exclusive | Why weve filed civil-rights complaints against DEI in New York and Wisconsin: Discriminates openly based on race

A public-interest law firm has filed federal civil-rights complaints against New York and Wisconsin on behalf of contractors who say they’re losing millions thanks to those states’ race and gender discrimination in handing out lucrative government contracts, the New York Post can exclusively report.“We’re a successful business by any metric, but if it wasn’t for the diversity requirements, we would be two or three times the size,” a New York company owner represented in the complaints told The Post.“It’s been a significant frustration of mine for the last 10 years.”He’s not alone.But Donald Trump’s election and the president’s requirement — made in an executive order his first day back in the White House — that federal contract and grant recipients comply with federal anti-discrimination law have created a climate of hope. After reading about the Wisconsin Institute for Law and Liberty’s work on civil-rights cases, the supplier reached out.What resulted is WILL’s two complaints on behalf of Contractors for Equal Opportunity.“Multiple times a day, we lose orders because we’re not a minority business,” the source, who supplies contractors for government-infrastructure projects and requested anonymity for fear of state reprisals, told The Post.“I was actually with a customer yesterday, one of our good customers.

And his words were: ‘You guys are considerably less expensive.You’re far easier to deal with.

Your products are better.We love working with you, but unfortunately, we can’t buy off you most of the time because we have to meet these diversity goals.’”Such set-asides are racially and sexually discriminatory — and so illegal under federal law, says Daniel Lennington, WILL’s managing vice president. Rather than take the cases directly to federal court, WILL filed Title VI complaints this week with US Attorney General Pam Bondi.Title VI of the 1964 Civil Rights Act bans discrimination based on sex or race...