"Since the beginning of the second Trump administration, companies across industries have been capitulating to the president's authoritarian demands. Businesses like Target and Google have walked back their DEI efforts after a flurry of executive orders targeted such initiatives. Law firms have cut deals with the president rather than challenge his policies. Even media outlets have bent to Trump. Are we already in a constitutional crisis?"
""As someone who works in state legislatures and lobbies against anti-LGBTQ bills across the country, the reality is that the single most powerful way to stop discriminatory legislation across the country is to have corporations lobby against those bills," said Chase Strangio, codirector of the ACLU's LGBT & HIV Project. Take HB2, also called the Bathroom Bill, a 2016 North Carolina law that required people to use the bathroom that matched the sex on their birth certificate-a way to restrict and harm transgender people."
Since the beginning of the second Trump administration, many companies have capitulated to authoritarian demands and rolled back diversity, equity, and inclusion efforts. Law firms and some media outlets have accommodated presidential power rather than challenge it. The ACLU frames the situation as a potential constitutional crisis that can be averted through resistance. Corporations can play a central role in resisting by lobbying against discriminatory state bills, as corporate opposition helped repeal North Carolina's HB2. Many states are proposing laws targeting transgender youth healthcare, and corporate silence leaves civil rights and employees unprotected.
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