Agencies, Contractors Suspend Diversity Training To Avoid Violating Trump Order

President Trump addresses a rally this week at Capital Region International Airport in Lansing, Mich.

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Three civil rights groups filed a federal class-action lawsuit Thursday challenging the Trump administration’s recent crackdown on diversity training.

The NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund, National Urban League and National Fair Housing Alliance call President Trump’s Sept. 22 executive order “chillingly punitive” censorship that violates guarantees of free speech, equal protection and due process.

Trump’s executive order prohibits certain diversity training that the administration says amounts to “divisive, anti-American propaganda.”