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From the opinion pages of the Wall Street Journal, this is Potomac Watch.

21 Democratic Attorneys General, demand continued corporate diversity and equity policies

from the Fortune 100. After 13 Republican Attorneys General suggested that such policies

might be illegal. Welcome, I'm Kyle Peterson with the Wall Street Journal. We are joined today by

my colleagues, columnist Alicia Finley and editorial board member Colin Levy.

Our businesses between a rock and a hard place now in the wake of the Supreme Court's decision

banning racial preferences in college admissions. It certainly seems that way. This latest letter

from 21 Democratic AGs came last week. I will read a portion of it. It says the letter you

received from the 13 state attorneys general, meaning those Republicans, is intended to intimidate

you into rolling back the progress many of you have made. We write to reassure you that corporate

efforts to recruit diverse workforces and creating inclusive work environments are legal and

reduce corporate risk for claims of discrimination. In fact, businesses should double down on diversity

focused programs because there is still much more work to be done. Alicia, can you give us a sense

of what is the legal argument that these Democratic AGs are making in contrast to the one that was

made earlier by Republican AGs? Well, they argue that a lot of these policies that Fortune 100

companies and actually other businesses use are really racially neutral that they actually don't

advantage any race over another. And then they actually cite examples such as expanded recruiting

for minorities on college campuses as well as mentorships that are available and open to

everyone of all races. And in principle, they're right. These examples that they cite are actually,

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