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.