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Cristian Farias
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TL;dr
The Supreme Court has turbocharged the demise of decades of workplace antidiscrimination laws, practices, and guidance — and for other areas where disparate impact liability is a key civil rights enforcement tool.
As one longtime civil rights lawyer told me: They’re running the table.
Relying heavily on Louisiana v. Callais, the Trump administration has determined that Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 may violate the Constitution’s equal-protection guarantee if interpreted to impose liability for workplace practices that have a disparate impact on employees.
Opinion:
Yup.
Who you say you are, what you say you believe, your identity as a citizen of this country, are all on the table.
“Are you prepared to stand and watch as Black political representation is erased? Do you not yet understand that this is also your fight if you have any hope of living in a democracy?”
