US EditionTrump's Latest Executive Order Takes on Disparate-Impact Theory
- President Trump signed an executive order on April 23, 2025, in the Oval Office.
- The order targets disparate impact liability, a theory emerging after the 1964 Civil Rights Act.
- It directs agencies to deprioritize enforcement of rules based on this liability theory.
- The White House states the theory "violates the Constitution's guarantee of equal treatment for all."
- This action shifts civil rights enforcement toward focusing on intentional discrimination only.
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Trump targets public school disorder - Washington Examiner
President Donald Trump signed an executive order this week aimed at reforming school discipline practices nationwide. The directive calls for schools to base disciplinary decisions strictly on student behavior without factoring in race or diversity, equity, and inclusion considerations. In recent years, restorative justice approaches have gained ground in schools across the country. Instead of suspending or expelling students who break rules, th…
CBS Bemoans Trump Crackdown on Disparate Impact, Another DEI Boondoggle
Thursday’s CBS Evening News Plus dove head-first into another meltdown about the Trump administration’s push to remove Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI) and other race-hustling removed root and branch from the federal government. This time, fill-in host Maurice DuBois brought out the head of the NAACP Legal Defense Fund to melt down about a new executive order to undo disparate impact. Before diving in for the bias, let’s put on the table w…
Op-Ed: Trump Order Makes Housing Discrimination Easier By Eliminating 'Disparate Impact' Data
Source: Alex Wong / Getty In 1973, the U.S. Department of Justice filed a lawsuit against President Donald Trump and his father, alleging that Black people were routinely denied the right to rent apartments in buildings owned by the Trump family. Two years later, the case was settled, but only after Trump unsuccessfully tried to countersue the DOJ for making false statements. But Trump wasn’t the sitting president of the United States back then,…
Trump seeks ‘common sense’ discipline in schools; critics warn of civil rights rollback - The Boston Globe
A new executive order is the latest salvo in a back-and-forth that extends back to a 2014 Obama policy that brought "disparate impact" principles to school discipline.
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