Nonprofit group prepares lawsuit against Secret Service over DEI rules

The nonprofit organization Independent Women's Forum (IWF) is preparing to sue the U.S. Secret Service over what it alleges are "arbitrary" diversity, equality and inclusion (DEI) guidelines at the agency.

According to a CBS report from last year, the agency adopted a goal of increasing female recruits to 30% of its workforce from the current 24% figure.

"In our country, it is illegal for the government to discriminate on the basis of sex. That is the Constitution's 14th Amendment," said May Mailman, director of the organization's Independent Women's Law Center, according to Fox News. "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 to have a 30% female quota."

The Secret Service has come under intense scrutiny after two assassination attempts on former President Trump in Butler, Pennsylvania and Palm Beach, Florida.

Former President Trump applauded the agents who responded to the shooting in Butler when he was on-stage at the outdoor rally.

"Every one of them – there wasn’t one that was slow. A woman who was on my right, she was shielding me," he said at a rally inMinnesota in July. "Beautiful person – she was shielding me, everything she could, and she got crushed. And she got criticized by the fake news because she wasn’t tall enough."