The change comports with similar Trump administration efforts and is aimed at aligning with the “original public meaning” of ...

The Justice Department accused the EEOC of violating civil rights laws by issuing guidelines that effectively pressured employers to make race-based considerations in hiring and promotions.

Measured in Trump time, it took eons to announce — but the White House has finally taken the most important step it can to restore meritocracy to American society: eliminating disparate-impact theory ...

The Trump administration’s fight against unlawful disparate-impact liability is good for business and the Constitution.

(Reuters) - President Donald Trump recently ordered federal agencies not to enforce laws that prohibit policies and practices with discriminatory impacts that are often unintended. Curbing so-called ...

In June, the U.S. Justice Department’s Office of Legal Counsel (OLC) issued an Opinion calling into question the concept of disparate impact ...

Though it received less attention than some of President Donald Trumps other executive orders, the principles embodied in EO 14281, "Restoring Equality of Opportunity and Meritocracy," are fundamental ...

President Trump has tried to scale back anti-discrimination regulations that date back decades. Federal agencies have heeded ...

The latest target in Trump’s war on civil rights is a legal theory known as “disparate impact.” An April 23 executive order calls for eliminating the theory “to the maximum degree possible.” According ...