Despite the orders, over 350 universities continue to carry out DEI mandates, and dozens have rebranded their offices to deceive the administration.

The lawsuit is one of several challenging Trump’s executive orders targeting DEI programs in both the private and public sectors. A federal appeals court last month lifted a Baltimore judge’s block on the anti-DEI orders in a similar case.

A Chicago federal judge said Thursday he was having second thoughts about whether he should have prohibited the Department of Labor from enforcing part of a Trump executive order targeting diversity,