A federal judge temporarily blocks parts of Trump’s anti-dei executive orders

A federal judge temporarily blocked the Department of Labor of the United States from the implementation of parts of the executive orders of President Donald Trump aimed at curbing diversity, the efforts of fairness and inclusion between federal contractors and the recipients of the subsidies.

Judge Matthew Kennelly of the United States District Court for the northern district of Illinois stopped the Department of Labor from requesting the federal contractors or to the recipients of the subsidies to certify not to manage any program in violation of the anti-dei executive orders of Trump.

This provision of certification has intensified the pressure on companies and other organizations to revisit their practices to why the government were to violate the provision, they would be subject to parameters for compensation for financial penalties pursuant to false claims act.

Thursday’s sentence is in response to a case intended by Chicago Women on the market, a non -profit organization founded in 1981 that helps to prepare women to work in qualified construction operations and has several contracts with the labor department. There was no immediate reaction from Chicago’s women on the market with the Kennelly order. THE Department of Justice He did not immediately respond to requests for comment.

A hearing on Chicago Women in TREDES ‘OFFER FOR A LATERSHIP ON TRUMP anti-dei executive orders for 10 April.

The cause of the organization is one of the numerous executive orders of Trump who aim at both private and public sectors programs.

Trump signed an order on his first day by directing the federal agencies to stop all the subsidies or contracts linked to equity “. He signed an order of follow-up that included a requirement that federal contractors and beneficiaries certify that they do not “manage any program that promotes gods that violate federal federal laws federal”.

Kennelly’s decision arrives almost two weeks after a Court of Appeal has revoked a wider national injunction against Trump’s anti-dei executive orders in a separate case in Baltimora. But Thursday’s sentence has a limited scope because Kennelly refused to extend the temporary restriction order to other federal agencies.

Chicago Women in Trades, who presented his case against the Trump administration last month, argued that the executive orders of the president on Gods are so large and vague that the organization had no way to guarantee compliance and therefore threaten its main mission.

Kennelly wrote that the women of Chicago on the market, who are represented by the Civil Rights Committee of lawyers pursuant to the law, could have succeeded in its topics that parts of the executive orders are a violation of the rights of freedom of speech and are unconstitutionally vague.

Although the government claimed that the provision of certification “implies only illegal programs of the programs, it has studied to shed light on what it means. The answer is far from obvious,” wrote Kennelly.

Kennelly wrote that she had extended her order to all the contractors of the Department of Labor and granting the recipients because the vagueness of the executive orders of Trump, combined with the threat of financial sanctions, would probably have put pressure on the organizations to curb the programs of in potential violation of the rights of freedom of speech.

Rather than facing potentially paralyzing sanctions, “it is likely that many of these beneficiaries take the most sure path and simply choose to stop talking about anything remotely related to what the government could take into consideration to promote or equity. A restrictive order at national level is appropriate to protect the beneficiaries that cannot afford the risks inherent in the bite of the hand that nourishes them”. Kenny wrote.

The judge also blocked Dol from freezing or cancellation of any funding with Chicago women on the market and the Trump administration to pursue any application of the false claims act against them.

During a hearing on Tuesday, the Trump administration claimed that Chicago’s women in the motion for rescue were premature because its arguments are based on speculation on how executive orders will be implemented.

But Chicago Women in Trade noticed in the presentation of the court that has multiple communications from the Department of Labor that direct them to guarantee respect for both executive orders. The organization also said in court and has already lost a subcontracting with a contractor who tries to respect the executive order.

Chicago Women in Trades has a long history of collaboration with companies, state and federal agencies and other interested parties in the sector to provide assistance and training on the best practices for the recruitment and maintenance of women in the operations, including training to combat prejudice and prevailing harassment in one of the most dominated industries from the country.

His granting works with the Federal Government dates back to years ago, including two subsidies assigned under the first Trump administration under the women in apprenticeships and non -traditional professions, who aim to expand the paths for women who try to get into business.

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