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IBM has agreed to resolve a white male ex-consultant's bias claims that he was fired so that the company could hire women and people of color to fulfill workforce diversity quotas, according to a filing in Michigan federal court Monday.

The judge found Dill put forward enough detail to support a "reverse discrimination" case — when a man says he has faced gender bias, or a white person says they've faced racial bias — by showing he may have been mistreated for being a part of the "majority."

Dill is represented by Andrew J. Block, Ryan T. Giannetti and Laura M. Stell of America First Legal Foundation and Christopher S. Berry of Smith Haughey Rice & Roegge.

Andrew Block, senior counsel for AFL, told the Washington Examiner the documents reveal that the complaint against McConnell is “well sourced in contemporary news reports, property filings, and Crossroads’ own tax filings and audits.”

“There can be no question as to the facts underlying the complaint, and it is up to the appropriate authorities to take action,” Block added.

AFL noted that the audit, coupled with the questionable property transactions, suggests systemic problems may have occurred under McConnell’s board leadership that were never disclosed in court filings.

Another day, another judge — burdened by obvious conflicts of interest — rules against the Trump administration’s sane and necessary policies.

US District Judge John McConnell has ordered the reversal of Team Trump’s freeze on certain forms of federal assistance, yet he sat for nearly two decades on the board of a homeless services provider, Crossroads Rhode Island, rising to chair it — and the Crossroads group directly benefited from federal grants via the Department of Housing and Urban Development to the tune of more than $15 million since 2010.

This astonishing fact came to light thanks to a complaint filed against McConnell by America First Legal, a conservative watchdog group.

America First Legal, which began digging into McConnell’s past after he issued a preliminary injunction halting Trump’s freeze earlier this year, argued in a complaint filed to the Boston-based 1st Circuit Court of Appeals that the judge’s ties to Crossroads pose a conflict of interest.

The Trump-aligned legal group is pleading with the appeals court to “take all appropriate action to resolve these issues.”

“Despite his long-time entanglement with this federally funded organization, Judge McConnell did not recuse himself,” America First Legal wrote in a 13-page complaint obtained by The Post.

“His failure to do so may violate federal law and judicial canons of ethics, raises profound concerns about Judge McConnell’s judgment as an officer of the court, and his fitness for the bench.”

“Freshman Congressman Brandon Gill, R-Texas, is teaming with pro-MAGA law firm America First Legal to file an amicus brief to the Supreme Court backing President Donald Trump’s use of the Alien Enemies Act to deport illegal immigrant gang members. 

“In a statement to Fox News Digital, America First senior counsel James Rogers said, ‘The notion that a single unelected judge may take it upon himself to micromanage the defense of our nation is an unprecedented and complete corruption of the separation of powers, which is a bedrock feature of our Republic.'”

“In 2023, America First Legal filed a federal civil rights complaint against MLB, directly citing the Diversity Pipeline Program with a specific job listing that asked only for ‘qualified minority and female candidates.’

The complaint also noted a Diversity Fellowship Program for ‘people of color and female candidates’ and a diversity in ticket sales training program to ‘grow the visibility of people of color and women within the industry.'”

"USAID was one of DOGE's first targets. In addition to finding all sorts of waste, fraud and abuse, America First Legal found last week that USAID was behind an online censorship scheme. A week before that, a senior USAID official ordered the agency's remaining staff to report to their now-former headquarters in Washington DC for an "all day" group effort to destroy documents, many of which contain sensitive information.

After DOGE cleaned house, 26 current and former USAID employees sued - arguing that Elon Musk and DOGE have no actual independent authority. Earlier this month, US District Judge Theodore Chuang, an Obama appointee, indefinitely blocked Musk and DOGE personnel from shutting down the agency."

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“A federal judge in Michigan on Wednesday refused to dismiss a lawsuit accusing IBM of forcing out a white male consultant in order to further its goals of building a more diverse workforce.

“Andrew Block of America First Legal, the conservative group representing Dill, said: ‘We look forward to continuing to litigate this case and fight for justice on behalf of our client.’

“America First Legal was founded by Stephen Miller, a top adviser to Republican President Donald Trump, and has filed a series of lawsuits and complaints claiming companies’ diversity policies are unlawful. In one of those cases, a federal judge in Los Angeles last year rejected CBS’ motion to dismiss a white screenwriter’s claims that the network’s diversity efforts led it to deny him a staff position on the show ‘SEAL Team.'”

“America First Legal (AFL), through ongoing litigation, has uncovered more of the censorship regime as it continues to unravel the extent of the censorship.  A press release from the organization highlights ‘a vast, government-backed censorship operation to silence Americans under the guise of “misinformation,” “disinformation,” and “malinformation.”‘  This time, their findings reveal a name that has become common even in the Mockingbird Media:  USAID.

“According to AFL, the Global Engagement Center (GEC) and USAID ‘coordinated efforts to censor “COVID-19 misinformation” and counter “COVID-19 propaganda.”‘ The release states that, ‘The GEC, in turn, collaborated with officials in the British Foreign, Commonwealth, and Development Office[s] on disinformation efforts.'”

“America First Legal, founded by two-time Trump White House aide Stephen Miller, posted 210 pages of new receipts Thursday from the group’s two-year Freedom of Information Act lawsuit against the State Department, which last year revealed USAID’s “Disinformation Primer” that spanned the end of President Trump’s first term and at least President Biden’s early term.”

“They document “a massive government-backed censorship operation” by USAID, “censorship nerve center” GEC, the U.K. Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office and media watchdogs NewsGuard and Poynter “under the guise” of policing mis-, dis- and mal-information, sometimes jeered as “true but inconvenient,” AFL said in a lengthy X thread on the revelations.”

“America First Legal, a conservative legal group closely tied to the Trump administration, said Monday it was “no coincidence” that a CBS News Colorado investigation found Denver Mayor Mike Johnston and his staff began communicating on Signal — an end-to-end encryption app that can automatically delete messages — just three weeks after the legal group filed open records requests with Johnston and the city over Denver’s handling of the migrant crisis.

“America First Legal suggested in their statement what was done was an “attempt to conceal or cover up.” The Mayor’s Office has not said why it was decided that messages within the Strike Force group would initially be deleted.”

“The decision to move the communication to Signal came just weeks after America First Legal requested that Johnston’s administration turn over communications related to immigration issues.

“AFL demanded ‘all records, including communications, calendar entries, and documents mentioning or belonging to Mike Johnston, Mayor since November 1, 2024.'”

“America First Legal, a conservative legal group, obtained more than 200 pages from the State Department through a Freedom of Information Act lawsuit about the Global Engagement Center, or GEC.

“‘The partnership between USAID and the Global Engagement Center is bad news for the American people,” Andrew Block, senior counsel for America First Legal, said in a public statement.

“America First Legal notes that Nemr is a former Obama administration State Department official. It also notes the House Small Business Committee found that Park Advisors received a GEC award of more than $6 million. From this, the company distributed subawards to several companies, including NewsGuard, the Atlantic Council, and the Global Disinformation Index. These groups created the ‘Disinfo Cloud,’ an unclassified platform used by the U.S. federal government, the European Union, the British government, the Australian government, and the Estonian government ‘to counter adversarial propaganda and disinformation.”

“America First Legal (AFL) released a raft of documents Thursday that the foundation says implicates the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) in a ‘vast, government-backed censorship operation’ designed to ‘silence Americans.’

“The AFL’s lawsuit against the GEC also reportedly revealed that USAID had developed a ‘Disinformation Primer’ that endorsed censorship strategies used in the private sector and ‘recommended further censorship tactics.’”

“America First Legal (AFL) and Texas GOP Rep. Brandon Gill are supporting President Donald Trump’s invocation of a 1798 wartime law, arguing a previous order blocking Trump’s deportation plans “unconstitutionally impedes” his presidential authority. 

“‘This law was passed by Congress in 1798,’ America First Legal Senior Counsel James Rogers said in a statement released. ‘Until now — for more than 226 years — courts have universally held that they do not have the power to interfere with the President’s authority as Commander in Chief to decide when to invoke the Act and expel aliens under its terms.'”

“The Johnston administration’s move to make their communications more difficult to access came about three weeks after America First Legal, a Trump-affiliated legal group, filed requests with Johnston and his administration seeking city records and communications related to immigration issues. Part of the request demanded, ‘All records, including communications, calendar entries, and documents mentioning or belonging to Mike Johnston, Mayor since November 1, 2024.'”

“On March 12, in a move that garnered national attention from media outlets including Fox News, America First Legal (AFL) filed complaints regarding Kenyon’s restroom regulations with the U.S. Department of Education and Ohio Attorney General Dave Yost. Two days later, the College amended a previous announcement to state that Ohio Senate Bill 104’s sex-specific regulations apply to all multi-occupancy student restrooms, including those shared with faculty.”

“AFL, a nonprofit organization dedicated to ‘turning the legal tables on the radical activist left,’ claimed that this policy was in violation of both Title IX and SB 104. AFL’s letter to Yost argued that SB 104 is intended to apply to all restrooms accessible by students, while the organization’s letter to the Department of Education stated that Kenyon’s policy increased female students’ risk of harassment and was thus a violation of Title IX.”

“America First Legal, which represented student George Stewart in the case, described the settlement as a “victory” in a news release.”

“‘Divvying up Americans based on race only creates problems and solves none. All universities should take note of [Texas Tech’s] decision and do likewise,” senior counsel Nick Barry stated. Barry cited the U.S. Supreme Court’s 2023 ruling Students for Fair Admissions v. Harvard, which ‘made it clear that race cannot be a consideration in college admissions’ because it violates students’ ‘right to equal protection.'”

“America First Legal … filed the complaint on Feb. 4, alleging that policies enforced by Alexandria City and Arlington, Fairfax, Loudoun and Prince William counties’ school districts ‘provide greater rights to students whose “gender identity” does not match their biological sex than [they do] to students whose “gender identity” matches their biological sex.'”

“The complaint from America First Legal asserted that the school districts’ policies violated an executive order signed by Trump, which aimed to eliminate federal funding for any schools that promoted ‘discriminatory treatment’ based on ‘gender ideology’ and ‘discriminatory equity ideology.'”

“A conservative legal watchdog group is urging both the Trump administration and the state of Ohio to investigate Kenyon College, which they allege is breaking the state’s recently passed bathroom bill categorizing restrooms by biological sex.

“America First Legal sent letters to Craig Trainor, the Department of Education’s acting assistant secretary in the Office for Civil Rights, and Ohio Attorney General Dave Yost Thursday morning urging the agencies to open an investigation of the college.

“‘Ohio law is clear: multi-occupancy restrooms must be designated for either men or women,” Will Scolinos, AFL legal counsel said. “Schools of higher education should focus more on educating students rather than re-educating them into radical gender policies that require students, men and women, to share the same restrooms. It is not normal.'”