Since turning into legal professional normal in January, Brenna Bird has been becoming a member of different Republican state attorneys normal in trying to intimidate corporations into enacting insurance policies conservative activists like.
At the beginning of February, Bird was one of many Republican attorneys normal to signal a letter to Walgreens and CVS that threatened the pharmacy chains with unspecified authorized motion in the event that they adopted new FDA laws and made a prescription drug generally utilized in medical abortion extra readily available. At first the businesses seemed to be cowed into following the Republicans’ calls for, however after pushback from the general public and reproductive rights advocates, each corporations introduced they’d comply with the FDA laws.
In July, Bird and most of her colleagues from the February letter, sent letters to the CEOs of the businesses listed on the Fortune 100 checklist, threatening authorized motion in the event that they don’t dismantle their corporations’ present range, fairness and inclusion (DEI) applications.
“Companies that engage in racial discrimination should and will face serious legal consequences,” the letters said, after claiming range, fairness and inclusion applications are types of unlawful racial discrimination.
And two weeks in the past, Bird joined one more try by Republican AGs to intimidate non-public businesses. This time it was a recycled model of the letter to Fortune 100 leaders, however geared toward a extra explicit viewers: the managing companions of the nation’s 100 prime legislation companies.
The indisputable fact that none of these companies are headquartered in Iowa didn’t cease Bird from signing the letter, any greater than the truth that not one of the Fortune 100 corporations are Iowa-based did.
There is one notable distinction between the July letter and the letter dated Aug. 29: the variety of signatories. Bird was joined by 12 different attorneys normal in making an attempt to stress the Fortune 100 into abandoning DEI applications. But solely 5 AGs, together with Bird, have been prepared to signal the letter to the key legislation companies. It’s attainable the others have been much less prepared to signal letters to legislation companies whose companions would know the way empty their threats have been, thereby risking embarrassment in entrance of outstanding members of their very own occupation.
The 4 AGs who joined Bird in signing the letter have been from Arkansas, Kansas, Kentucky and Montana. None of the highest 100 legislation companies have their headquarters in these states.
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