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A nonprofit defending women’s issues plans to sue the U.S. Secret Service for what it alleges is an “arbitrary” diversity, equality and inclusion (DEI) initiative that harms female employees.
The proposed lawsuit comes more than two months after some pointed fingers at female USSS agents assigned to former President Trump’s detail at his July 13 presidential campaign rally in Butler, Pennsylvania, when a 20-year-old shooter gained access to a nearby rooftop and shot at Trump with an automatic rifle.
“In our country, it is illegal for the government to discriminate on the basis of sex. That is the Constitution’s 14th Amendment,” May Mailman, director of the Independent Women’s Forum, told Fox News Digital. “But also Title VII prohibits employers from discriminating on the basis of sex. And yet you have the Secret Service, of all agencies, saying that they want …