Professor Nabs Partial Block on Discipline for Anti-DEI Speech

A California community college cannot enforce some stateDEI rules against a history professor suing to protect his right to speak out in opposition to such policies, a US court has ruled.

Plaintiff Daymon Johnson, who’s worked at Kern Community College District’s Bakersfield College for more than three decades, secured a preliminary injunction blocking his employer from taking action if he speaks negatively about the California community college regulations. But the defendants can still make Johnson take a mandatory diversity training before serving on a faculty screening committee, and the injunction doesn’t apply to any official speech he makes as a ...