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Kansas Attorney General Kris Kobach
Posted July 14, 2023
Kansas Attorney General Kris Kobach co-lead a 13-state coalition, including Missouri Attorney General Andrew Bailey, urging Fortune 100 companies to terminate all racially discriminatory employment and contracting practices or be faced with legal consequences.
This message affects the two-state region as, notably, Missouri Attorney General Andrew Bailey was among the list of attorney general signatures on the letter.
“The time has come for Martin Luther King Jr.’s dream to reflect reality. All Americans should be judged based on the content of their character, not the color of their skin,” Kobach said.
The banding of this coalition follows the Supreme Court’s decision to end racial preferences in higher education last month in the case of Students for Fair Admissions v. President & Fellows of Harvard College.
A letter was sent out Thursday addressed to Fortune 100 executives arguing the Supreme Court’s decision to end affirmative action in higher education institutions also correlates to companies hiring practices. Furthermore, any continuation of these practices would be considered “unlawful and wrong” and will be met with “serious legal consequences.”
Many companies from the Fortune 100 list use diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI) hiring programs. In July 2022 it was reported all Fortune 100 companies adopted DEI strategies.
“In an inversion of the odious discriminatory practices of the distant past, today’s major companies adopt explicitly race-based initiatives which are similarly illegal,” the letter reads, pointing toward “racial quotas” in hiring, recruiting, retention, promotion and advancement.
Tennessee Attorney General Jonathan Skrmetti is the other co-lead in this endeavor.
“As the Supreme Court recently emphasized, both our Constitution and our civil rights laws guarantee every American the right to be free from racial discrimination,” Skrmetti said in a release..
Attorneys General Kobach and Skrmetti were joined in signing the letter by state attorneys general from Alabama, Arkansas, Indiana, Iowa, Kentucky, Mississippi, Missouri, Montana, Nebraska, South Carolina, and West Virginia.
Read the letter in its entirety, here.
