Public Citizen just sued the Trump regime in federal court over a directive
telling staff of a key civil rights office not to investigate an entire category
of civil rights violations.

Here’s more about the case:

* For decades, it has been settled law that when an employment practice has a
negative effect on one group of people more than another — because of traits
like race, sex, age, religion, national origin, sexual orientation, or
disability — it is a form of discrimination.

* Even if an employer had no intent to discriminate, a practice with this sort
of “disparate impact” is unlawful unless justified by a business necessity.

* For example, if a company required applicants to be at least six feet tall
for a job that could be done by someone of any height, that requirement would
have a disparate impact on women, who are, on average, shorter than men.

* Although the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) is required by
law to investigate all charges of discrimination filed with it, last month it
ordered staff to stop investigating disparate impact claims.

* This is yet another instance of the Trump regime’s Orwellian, up-is-down
fixation on cultural grievance. It would be absurd if it weren’t so alarming,
and we have to fight it with everything we’ve got.

Public Citizen — in partnership with Public Justice, FarmSTAND, and Towards
Justice — is representing a former Amazon delivery driver in this case. She
filed a charge with the EEOC alleging that Amazon’s denial of bathroom breaks
had a disparate impact on drivers with female anatomy. But the EEOC closed her
case without investigating. We filed suit on Monday, October 20.

MORE ABOUT TAKING THE TRUMP REGIME TO COURT

The Trump administration is unilaterally, unconstitutionally, and unlawfully
dismantling the federal government — our government — from Cabinet-level departments that have their own stately
buildings here in Washington, D.C., to smaller agencies that go largely
unnoticed as they do the routine, unheralded work that makes for a functioning
country.

Public Citizen is doing everything we can — within our modest means — to fight
back at every turn. It’s David and Goliath for sure, but we will never back
down. Even where we haven’t (yet) notched definitive victories in court, we are
slowing down the regime and making it work a lot harder in pursuit of its desire
for absolute power.

This is the 21st lawsuit we have filed (so far) against the administration since
Trump returned to power. Are these lawsuits alone enough to fully defeat Trump
and MAGA? Of course not. But are they a meaningful part of the pushback needed
to collectively save our country? No doubt about it.

What you and Public Citizen are doing together matters. What hundreds of other
organizations, big and small, are doing matters. What millions upon millions of
our fellow Americans are doing matters. We believe that to our core. We take
solace in that. And we draw inspiration from that. We hope you do, too.

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