After
Morrison
&
Foerster,
Perkins
Coie,
and
Gibson
Dunn
bent
the
knee
to
the
American
Alliance
for
Equal
Rights,
great
white
hope
Edward
Blum
has
announced
victory
over
the
law
firms
that
made
victims
out
of
straight
white
men.
Here’s
the
gloating
fresh
from
Bloomberg:
Affirmative-action
foe
Edward
Blum
said
a
group
he
started
that
files
lawsuits
challenging
diversity
programs
has
no
new
plans
to
sue
any
more
law
firms.“There’s
nothing
left
for
us
to
do
in
that
space,”
he
said
in
an
interview.Law
firms
are
no
longer
raising
red
flags
with
their
diversity,
equity
and
inclusion
programs,
he
said.
However,
a
researcher
for
his
group
still
combs
websites
of
hundreds
of
firms
looking
for
any
evidence
of
programs
he
views
as
illegal,
he
said.
Just
to
be
clear,
the
“nothing
left
to
do
in
that
space”
coupled
with
the
“I
still
have
a
couple
lackeys
on
the
books”
is
just
Blum’s
version
of
boxer
trash
talk.
Don’t
believe
me?
Please
find
the
difference:
In
short,
the
wounds
from
SFFA
v.
Harvard
are
still
fresh.
Despite
the
expected
outcome
of
that
case,
Asian
students
are
still
worried
about
how
their
applications
will
stand
up.
Programs
meant
to
bring
equity
to
historical
injustices
and
do
things
like
close
the
Black
maternal
mortality
gap
are
being
targeted
as
illegal
discriminators.
And
even
though
Blum
is
taking
a
hiatus
from
his
shenanigans,
goofies
like
Stephen
Miller
are
still
finding
the
time
to
sue
Pop-Tarts
for
being
gay
at
NYU’s
law
review
or
something.
The
diversity
spite
suits
don’t
look
to
be
ending
any
time
soon.
Blum
Says
He’s
Done
Suing
Law
Firms
as
Winston
Yields
on
DEI
[Bloomberg
Law]
Chris
Williams
became
a
social
media
manager
and
assistant
editor
for
Above
the
Law
in
June
2021.
Prior
to
joining
the
staff,
he
moonlighted
as
a
minor
Memelord™
in
the
Facebook
group Law
School
Memes
for
Edgy
T14s.
He
endured
Missouri
long
enough
to
graduate
from
Washington
University
in
St.
Louis
School
of
Law.
He
is
a
former
boatbuilder
who
cannot
swim, a
published
author
on
critical
race
theory,
philosophy,
and
humor,
and
has
a
love
for
cycling
that
occasionally
annoys
his
peers.
You
can
reach
him
by
email
at cwilliams@abovethelaw.com and
by
tweet
at @WritesForRent.