Posted on 07/19/2021 6:20:18 AM PDT by Enlightened1
A member of the Air Force Academy Board of Visitors has sued over Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin suspending the board, claiming it prevented vital oversight, including over the potential introduction of critical race theory in the university curriculum.
The board is one of 42 Defense Department advisory committees that Mr. Austin suspended to consider their “continued utilization,” according to a Pentagon memorandum.
The Air Force Academy board or AFA BOV remains shut down despite passing Mr. Austin’s April 30 deadline to complete the review.
Board member Heidi Stirrup, who was appointed by then-President Trump in December, asked the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia for an injunction to restore the board’s function.
In the lawsuit, Ms. Stirrup said that the board is non-discretionary as a congressionally mandated oversight function and that the defense secretary does not have the authority to suspend its operation.
“Numerous specific legal requirements and duties of the AFA BOV and of the Defendants are being violated or unfulfilled because of the suspension of the operations of the AFA BOV,” said the complaint.
Of particular concern for Ms. Stirrup was that the board remained suspended amid growing concern about the military’s incorporation of critical race theory in training and reading lists at the service academies.
In March, Ms. Stirrup send an email to the Air Force Academy asking for information about its teaching on racial issues. She said a video had surfaced in which Air Force Academy football coaches appeared to publicly express support for the Black Lives Matter movement.
She also asked whether the academy was regulating social media posts by cadets and the standards for the academy’s review of extremism among cadets.
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CRT = Communist Race Theory
The SecDef conntinues to give aid and comfort to the enemies of the United States. The Constitution has a word for that!
When the Left has power, the fire all the people they want to fire, they promote all the people they want to promote, and they shut down anything which is inconvenient, such as an oversight board. They grab their moment, use the power, and cement their ideology within the institution.
Our side never does that. Too afraid of what the media might say.
Meanwhile, President Trump was impeached for having eggs on Monday and then impeached a second time for having waffles on Tuesday.
We keep trying to be careful and not offend our enemies. We never benefit from that. The other side doesn’t dilly-dally. They just make bad stuff happen.
CRT teaches that whites and western civilization are responsible to the world’s ills.
Who would fight for a country that is racist, white and evil?
Sounds like the Communist Chinese made excellent inroads into discovering how to win wars easily.
Our military is being dismantled by Obama’s apparatchiks with nary a squeak from the right.
The communists do not want interference.
Obama is not a natural born citizen.
The time to squeak was before the Usurpation.
NONE of our elected OR appointed would uphold the Constitution.
They need to indoctrinate upcoming pilots in this nonsense so they will drop nukes on red states where all the whites supremacists live.
Don’t blame me. Biden said it, and he’s the most popular president ever.
Sadly true.
In addition, the CCP overthrew our goverment and installed their puppet as POTUS.
Austin wants dem boys and girls to fire/drop bombs on American civilians without remorse.
Commie thugs don't like no damn 'mandated oversight'... that's why they're commie thugs.
We either fight the stinkin' commies now - with our laws and our Constitution - or like Cubans we fight them in the streets or like North Koreans in their torture chambers. Commie filth is death...
Is Lloyd Austin a traitor?
CRT in a few words: All Whites, even those who ignorantly support BLM and The Resident are racists, period!!!
At this point I will not support 1 lib shop/org/comp and they can all Kiss my F N Arse!
Well said.
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