Mountain States Legal Foundation

This is true. @MSLF has done incredible and mostly unheralded work on the air traffic controller case over the years, and they deserve major credit for their diligence and commitment to it.

If @PeteButtigieg is serious about helping his party win, he'd better find a stronger answer on DEI. Right now, Biden's DoJ is suing his city of South Bend alleging unfair hiring practices because its police officer test—like all fair academic tests—has disparate impact. Right now, he is facing a class action suit from prospective air traffic controllers disqualified by an absurd and unfair "biographical questionnaire" created in the name of DEI, one where interest groups gave answers out and where "correct" answers included claiming to have gotten low grades in science. He has done nothing about it. Look, I respect Buttigieg. I think he's perhaps the best and the boldest orator the Democratic Party has, and respect that he did what Kamala Harris never managed and spoke candidly to undecided voters. And I know the job of a campaign surrogate is to fluff up the boss, not to speak with candor about the things that matter most. He was speaking to a low-information voter, and "I don't think our lives would be better off if we had more uniformity, inequity, and exclusion" might be persuasive enough to someone like that. But anyone—anyone—who has seen the specifics of the battles on the ground knows how unpersuasive that answer should be. People are not hypothesizing about abstract unfairness. They can see specific, ludicrous examples of unfairness that any close observer should object to. Buttigieg has a choice: did he preside over racist hiring practices by using a standard, easy test for police officers, as his administration is now suing his city over? Was the FAA's absurd biographical questionnaire so fair that his administration is correct to fight the class action suit? Or are both of those actions clear examples of government overreach in the name of "DEI," examples that a courageous and effective politician would do something about instead of mouthing platitudes? I don't know who's going to win this election, but I do know that Buttigieg is ambitious, this is not the last election, and this issue is not going away. Harris wholly failed to answer this question on the campaign trail. Now Buttigieg has four years to come up with something better.