Religious broadcasters win legal battle against FCC’s DEI reporting mandate

Religious broadcasters win legal battle against FCC’s DEI reporting mandate

A panel for the Fifth Circuit found that the prior administration’s initiative to collect race, gender, and ethnicity data from faith-based communicators serves no legitimate government purpose and violates the Constitution. A federal appeals court has ruled that the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) lacks the authority to require broadcasters to disclose employee demographic data, delivering a significant victory to religious broadcasting…