Pushing Back Against DEI Capture of Mandatory Continuing Legal Education– legalinsurrection.com
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I appeared on September 2, 2026, on a Continuing Legal Education (CLE) program run by The Federalist Society. The topic was mandatory Diversity Equity and Inclusion (DEI) requirements under state CLE rules in order to maintain Bar membership.
Full video at bottom of this post. My segment and initial comments start at 20:15 (click here to jump to that point)
Thank you for having me. I want to emphasize a lot of the points that have been made and make a couple of others.
I am sending my greetings from the State of Rhode Island, until about three years ago, known as the State of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations. But the of the state was changed as part of the mad DEI dash post George Floyd, even though historically ‘plantations’ did not have to do with slavery in Rhode Island, it meant something very different.
There was a mass virtue signaling push, which also came to be in our CLE rules. So in 2023, I believe it was at the instigation of the Rhode Island Bar DEI committee, who knows what they actually do, but the Rhode Island Supreme Court issued a proposal and opened it for comment to change our CLE rules, which are regulated by the Supreme Court in Rhode Island, to require of the 10 mandatory credits that one of them be in diversity, equity, and inclusion.