inclusion policies they say are not being followed by u.s. major corporations. madison alworth is with us now. how have gop activists changed their focus after the ruling on affirmative action, madison. sandra, corporations are the new target of those gop activists with mandated diversity efforts in the spotlight. so, these companies have all been sued over diversity, equity and inclusion efforts, essentially taking the supreme court ruling against affirmative action in universities and saying the same should apply to corporations. the main arguments in the lawsuits and petitions, companies are violating rules against race and sex discrimination favoring only certain sexes and races. a group of gop attorneys general have also sent a letter to fortune 100 companies warning them, part says remind you of your obligations as an employer under federal and state law to refrain from discriminating on
republican lawmakers and officials have targeted race based policies, beyond just college admissions, beyond just our universities. and now it is pushing into our workforce. our contracts back, many of us in the struggle feared it would. including this week s letter. how america s democratic a.g. s pushing back on this? well, reverend, thank you so much for having me on. you ve used some very apropos wards. the headline earlier said intimidate, you said threaten. and that is exactly what 13 of my republican colleagues are doing to fortune 100 companies. and indeed, country bunnies across the. nation last, week 13 of my republican fortune hundred companies trying to apply the supreme court case on affirmative action to diversity programs and corporations. they are showing their true colors, reverend, they are anti-diversity, they are anti business, and they are anti-economy. these republicans, they laid out a series of what is clearly
supreme court justices did he put on that bench in the high court? you know, the cause of, that we are seeing the overturning of rules and laws that republicans really had a problem with, let s say, roe v. wade overturned, let s talk about affirmative action and college admissions. overturned. and there are potentially could be more. he did exactly what, you know, they wanted to do. even though it might have been unpolished and rash. and not lacking a lot of, lacking a lot of control. but he did. what they re seeing is, okay, this is donald trump. in the meantime, i will turn a blind eye. and kind of downplayed what he did, because he didn t want him to do that. kelly hymen and april ryan, thank you both for being with us. coming, up state attorneys across the country send a strong message to america s fortune 100 diversity matters,
sandra: really interesting when you look at the numbers. we are always following the nba s business deals with china. nba nba valued and owns 90% of e tv deal and 1.5 billion feel. ten plus billion dollars in chinese companies. quite clearly it is there. flash back to this moment june 2022, enes kanter freedom and this is silver defending china and the relationship at the nba. listen. virtually, every fortune 100 company is doing business in china. a good enormous relationship with china. people are suggesting that they should no longer have trade relations with china. and i don t think they are peer that is a huge global issue on which we will follow the lead from our government. sandra: this is spiraling