Legal Insurrection by William A. Jacobson
My appearance on Chicago’s Morning Answer: “Just because Joe Biden pardoned the Biden crime family, I’m not sure we need to rush out and change the Constitution…. Joe Biden proved that he is the Joe Biden we warned everybody about.”I appeared this morning on Chicago’s Morning Answer with Dan Proft and Amy Jacobson (no relation). This is one of my favorite shows on which to appear because they are very knowledgeable and prepared, and they give me plenty of time to talk.
We started by talking about Trump’s DEI Executive Orders, and then Joe Biden’s last minute pardon of his family (Hunter was previously pardoned), just 15 minutes before Trump was sworn into office.
My segment starts at 5:40:
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Dan Proft (05:40): DEI is out, MEI is in. For more on this, please be joined by William Jacobson, clinical professor of law and director of the Securities Law Clinic at Cornell, founder of legalinstruction.com, and president of the Legal Insurrection Foundation, as well as the Equal Protection Project. Professor Jacobson, thanks, thanks for joining us again. Appreciate it.
WAJ (05:59):
Thank you for having me back….
Proft (06:27):
Uh, what about the EO on DEI, you know, as so indicated in Trump’s remarks in his address?
WAJ (06:37):
Yeah. Well, two things happened after the inauguration, some point last night. One, he signed an order rescinding a whole bunch of Biden executive orders, and including those were two of them for what Biden called his racial equity agenda. So in 2021 and reiterated in 2023, Biden had forced the bureaucracy to implement, call it DEI, call it critical race theory, call it whatever you want, but racial preferences throughout the government. So those were rescinded. So that’s part number one of what he did.
Part number two, in a separate executive order, he ordered the end of diversity, equity, and inclusion in the federal government. A fairly specific listing, the sort of job titles that can’t exist anymore, prohibiting the use of race and color in hiring and things like that, which of course should have already been the law, except the Biden administration ignored it.
So yeah, it, this will have a significant impact on federal programs and federal hiring that elevated racial quotas essentially over merit-based hiring.
Proft (07:57):
And the legislation that was passed that will go to President Trump’s desk to essentially amend the amendment that the Biden administration made to Title IX to prohibit men from playing girls sports, in federally funded schools … the extent of that Title IX language change, what, what that means for K through 12, what that means for any entity that receives federal funding?
WAJ (08:31):
I think the important part of that is that it prohibits federal funding being used for any of those purposes. And in all of these things, people need to understand the money is what matters. Federal funding is the elephant in every room in education.
And if you prohibit the use of federal funds for those purposes, and you nonetheless do that, you could get $10 million, but if you allocate even $50,000 towards things that are prohibited, you’re putting everything at risk. So that’s an enormous hammer hanging over the heads of the DEI bureaucracy and the gender ideology bureaucracies, that you cannot use federal funds for these purposes.
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https://legalinsurrection.com/2025/01/bidens-last-minute-pardons-proved-beyond-any-doubt-that-there-really-was-a-biden-crime-family/
