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He and other legislators have asked the Treasury Department’s inspector general for tax administration to investigate the deal’s legality.

In a letter to school district superintendents Friday, the California Department of Education, or CDE, defended the legality of DEI efforts.

Those attorneys have since retained counsel and challenged the legality of the firings through an appeal to the Merit Systems Protection Board, which bills itself as an independent, quasi-judicial agency in the executive branch.

"I don't know the legality of replying to their messages," he said, adding he has decided not to reply at all and only took on the handle as an experiment.

The legality of the president’s Executive Order is being challenged, and several judges have issued a preliminary injunctions blocking it from going into effect.