A federal judge has blocked portions of Mississippi’s ban on DEI in schools that took effect in April. Judge Henry Wingate ruled that House Bill 1193 contradicts the First and Fourteenth Amendments and that it would cause injury to the plaintiffs by violating their rights to those amendments. The blocked provisions seek to prohibit public schools from discussing “divisive concepts” related to sex, race, gender, identity, sexual orientation and national origin. The ban also would prevent public schools from maintaining programs, courses, training, or offices that promote DEI, which, under an ongoing right-wing propaganda campaign, has been falsely labeled as exclusionary and divisive.

Wingate not only finds that the law is at odds with the First and Fourteenth Amendments, but also that it

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