This is a must-read story (including full text of letters from a FOIA request) by the Daily Cavalier about Trump admin's efforts to misuse federal antidiscrimination law in support of its ideological agenda against DEI at UVA. Kudos to the student journalists! The final letter dated 6/17 - addressed to incoming Rector Rachel Sheridan & cc'd McGuireWoods law firm - threatens to withold federal $$ unless "dramatic, wholesale changes" are made to UVA's "current administration" - is a clear demand to BoV to fire Jim Ryan. Youngkin appointees are complicit. It appears from this letter that the McGuireWoods firm has been leading UVA's internal review related to DEI, and possibly negotiating with the Trump admin. (The named lawyer in the letter is a Regent Law grad, FWIW.) I have requested all relevant agreements and invoices via FOIA.
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