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The 4th Circuit Court of Appeals has upheld a lower court's decision blocking the Trump administration from terminating 19 career intelligence officers at the CIA and Office of the Director of National Intelligence who were involved in diversity, equity, inclusion, and accessibility (DEIA) roles. “The Agencies have never suggested that any of the Intelligence Officers engaged in workplace misconduct or that the terminations were motivated by performance concerns. Rather, the Director of the CIA stated affirmatively that the decisions to terminate the Intelligence Officers were taken to ‘effectuate the directives in' DEIA Executive Order” signed by President Trump, the majority wrote in its opinion. U.S. Circuit Judge Nicole Berner, writing for the majority, said that among the promises of the U.S. Constitution's Fifth Amendment "is the requirement that no person be deprived of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law . . . This promise of due process has been construed to require federal government agencies to adhere to their own binding regulations."
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