If the process has endangered airline passengers, then one looks to negligent hiring. If that is found to be true, then the persons who authorized the hiring of unqualified workers are directly in line for being sued. There might also be an issue of negligent retention. If workers have been unqualified to do the work they were hired for, but did sloppy work but weren't fired, then negligent retention becomes an issue also. And once again, people who should have fired unqualified workers are in line to be sued.
Paxton doesn't need to get into gender issues. But as a matter of curiosity, if Boeing was proud of its progress in DEI, why would it now try to hide its racial makeup percentages if it touted them before?
But to me, it once again boils down to a couple of questions - were standards lowered? And did no one try to reinstate higher standards once the problems were discovered?
The airlines are obligated to answer these questions. The lives of airline passengers have been shown to be jeopardized on several occasions, and Paxton, and others, have a right to ask those questions, and the Boeing has a duty to answer them truthfully.
What Paxton wants answered is if there is a correlation between the implementation of DEI and the frightening problems facing Boeing now.
I don’t doubt that’s part of his intent.
However, Paxton’s request letter states that the inquiry is focused on acts or conduct that violate governing documents or Texas law.
DEI isn’t illegal as a business activity. It was banned in colleges in Texas but it is still a legal business practice.
Therefore, Paxton and the State of Texas has zero right delving into a legal activity.
Even if leftist AGs are harassing conservative employers, two wrongs doesn’t make a right. If the District of Columbia wanted all of Breitbart’s notes taken during interviews to see if THEY are NOT pursuing DEI, I’d say the same thing - pound sand.
It doesn’t matter what I think about DEI or if I think Spirit finds it cheaper to hire Epsilon Semi-Morons.
Now, if Spirit is covering up defective parts, colluding with Boeing to build a Lie/Party Line on the mishaps, or other criminal activities, that’s fair game. Indeed, based in many stories - here’s one https://www.msn.com/en-us/money/companies/why-was-spirit-aerosystems-sued-lawsuit-explored-as-boeing-door-plug-supplier-repeatedly-warned-of-defects-before-alaska-airlines-incident/ar-AA1mPIf3 Spirit seems to have a number of ethical problems. Indeed, I’d rather Paxton go in that direction - that would be a legitimate exercise of state power. However, the inclusion In Paxton’s “Documents to be Produced” of items 7-11 makes me thing this is chiefly a Red Meat political maneuver.
The minute we champions of liberty and the Constitution and the Rule of Law throw all that overboard because we’re afraid the left is winning, is the minute we have become Legion.
Ome small, final note on Paxton. His lawsuit against Pfizer is stupid. He says it was misleading for Pfizer to claim its vaccine was 95% effective because it offered a "relative risk reduction" for people to who took it. Well, anyone with a search engine can tell the difference between Vaccine Efficacy and Relative Risk Reduction. The Covid shots are a big nasty saga, but I don’t need a lawyer in Texas to effectively say I’m too stupid to tell the difference and I need Leviathan to be my knight in shining armor. Fix the border.