This is essentially the Rooney Rule. It's not saying that the candidate must have protected attribute X, but that the candidate pool must have variants of X. I

This is essentially the Rooney Rule. It's not saying that the candidate must have protected attribute X, but that the candidate pool must have variants of X. I think the courts would take a dim view of claiming that a procedure to partly mitigate bias regarding attribute X is somehow illegal discrimination along the same attribute. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rooney_Rule https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rooney_Rule