A lawsuit has been filed against the State Bar of Wisconsin over its “discriminatory” Diversity Clerkship Program, which offers exclusive internship opportunities to specific racial and sexual minorities.
The lawsuit, filed by the Wisconsin Institute for Law and Liberty (WILL) on behalf of attorney Daniel Suhr, alleges that the program violates the 14th Amendment by discriminating against Wisconsin attorneys.
Suhr argues that internships should be open to all students regardless of background, and the lawsuit seeks to block the program and asserts violations of free speech and association rights. (Trending: Bud Light Gets Bad News Ahead of Christmas)
The Wisconsin Institute for Law and Liberty (WILL) on behalf of attorney Daniel Suhr said, “Diversity Clerkship Program” violates the 14th Amendment by discriminating against hundreds of Wisconsin attorneys.
“When the government discriminates based on race, it sows more division in our country and violates the Constitution in the process. WILL is standing up against discrimination and holding the State Bar accountable to the rights of its due-paying members,” WILL Associate Counsel Skylar Croy said.
The bar says that students must come from “backgrounds that have been historically excluded from the legal field who are in good standing.”
The state bar describes the program as a 10-week paid internship for a first-year law student from Marquette University Law School or the University of Wisconsin Law School.
Suhr said that internships should be open for all students, regardless of background.
“Internships are competitive — as they should be. But when one group is given preferential treatment over the other to apply for these programs, the programs lose competitiveness and hurt all Americans. This also goes against my beliefs entirely. The State Bar should do better and expand these opportunities to all Wisconsin law students,” he said.
“For as long as the Bar is engaged in activities that are not germane to either regulating the legal profession or improving the quality of legal services, compelled membership is unconstitutional,” the lawsuit says.
Suhr highlighted, “Black Americans suffer from police brutality and crippling fear caused by systemic racism and implicit bias that is ingrained in our legal system.”
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