⚖️Trump Order Halts Disparate-Impact Anti-Discrimination Rules
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Trump's Executive Order 14281 on April 29, 2025, tells federal agencies to stop using "disparate-impact" standards in civil rights enforcement. The order guts a key tool for fighting hidden workplace bias since the 1970s.
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Why This Matters
Your Civil Rights Enforcement:
Disparate impact has uncovered discrimination since the 1970s without requiring proof of intent.
Your Executive Power:
Single order rewrites decades of workplace policy without congressional approval.
Your Economic Equity:
Hiring algorithms, promotions, and pay decisions all depend on this legal theory.
Your Checks and Balances:
Courts and Congress must decide if the order oversteps statutory limits.
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What is the official number of this executive order?
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Which legal doctrine does EO 14281 label a 'pernicious movement'?
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Which 1965 executive order governing federal contractors does EO 14281 move to dismantle?
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Which Labor Department office loses much of its enforcement muscle under the new order?
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Disparate impact was first written into federal statute by which law?
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Which 1971 Supreme Court case launched the disparate-impact doctrine?
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Disparate-impact burdens of proof live in which section of the U.S. Code?
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Former EEOC Chair quoted by Reuters who warned AI hiring tools could hide bias after the order:
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Which federal agency dropped race-based allegations against Asbury Automotive Group citing EO 14281?
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EO 14281 says the United States 'guarantees' which of the following?
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Give the U.S. Code citation that sets the burden-shifting framework for disparate-impact cases.
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How many days after EO 14281 must agencies submit their repeal plans to the Attorney General?
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EO 14281 declares that disparate-impact liability is unconstitutional.
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The order immediately repeals Title VII of the Civil Rights Act.
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EO 14281 revokes President Clinton’s 1994 environmental-justice order (EO 12898).
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