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America First Legal (AFL), with co-counsel Boyden Gray PLLC, has filed a petition for review in the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit on behalf of the National Religious Broadcasters and American Family Association against the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) for its order unlawfully requiring television and radio stations in the United States to publicly report the race, ethnicity, and sex of their employees. On February 22, 2024, the FCC announced that it would begin collecting “[d]ata concerning the gender, race, and ethnicity of a broadcast station’s workforce” and make the submissions from each television and radio station publicly available.The FCC claims that this “data will not be used for the purpose of assessing any aspect of an individual broadcast licensee’s or permittee’s compliance with…nondiscrimination or equal employment opportunity requirements.” However, the FCC never clearly explains what this data collection is for, only making vague allusions to using it “for purposes of analyzing industry trends and making reports to Congress.” The real purpose is obvious: to put pressure on broadcasters to institute discriminatory employment practices. ...
America First Legal Files Petition to Stop the FCC’s Unlawful Collection of Race and Sex Data of Television and Radio BroadcastersMay 14, 2024America First Legal DNC should change their name to DEI.
