Key Court Case Illustrates How Enforcing the Left’s DEI Orthodoxy on ‘White Supremacy’ Violates the First Amendment |
During the “Great Awokening” in 2020, something snapped inside left-leaning Americans. Many of them decided that not only was America institutionally racist, but it was also their duty to abuse their positions to force “anti-racism” and “diversity, equity, and inclusion” on the rest of us.
Corporations and school districts subjected employees to DEI struggle sessions in order to root out “racism.”
Now, some of these bad actors are finally facing accountability for their abuses.
On the second-to-last day of 2025, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 8th Circuit resurrected a powerful First Amendment lawsuit that exposes just how bad things became—not in New York City or San Francisco, but in Springfield, Missouri.
Brooke Henderson, a 12-year process coordinator, and Jennifer Lumley, a two-year records secretary, sued the Springfield R-12 School District for violating their First Amendment rights in a 2020 “Fall District-Wide Equity Training.”
While a lower court ruled against them, six of the 8th Circuit’s 11 judges revived their case.
Both Henderson and Lumley were given to understand they would be docked pay for refusing to attend the training in October 2020.
Trainers told Henderson that she “needed to have........