“I am writing to stress the need to comply strictly with the decision’s holding,” Yost wrote to public colleges and universities the following day, according to The Dispatch.
“And to warn the higher education community about the dangers that institutions of higher education and institutional employees face by failing to do so.”
Employees found guilty of such practices as employing application essays to discern an applicant’s race “might not be protected by qualified immunity, a doctrine that protects public officials from being personally liable in certain situations,” Yost wrote, according to The Dispatch.
DEI is in the crosshairs of THE LAW. The Legislature is sensibly reducing taxpayers' liability for these illegal programs. Corporate America will need to do its own liability calculations. If they are "business as usual," they're getting bad legal advice. https://t.co/2aUhWZOXzh
— Dan Lennington (@DanLennington) July 16, 2023