US Politics
The Unraveling of a Promise: The Administration's Assault on Disparate Impact and Systemic Justice
The Department of Justice is challenging the disparate impact liability framework, a cornerstone of civil rights enforcement for decades, which allows policies to be deemed discriminatory if they disproportionately harm protected groups, even if they appear neutral. This represents a deliberate and chilling retreat from the fundamental American promise of equal opportunity, threatening to unravel decades of hard-won progress against systemic discrimination and betraying the spirit of the laws born from the Civil Rights Movement.
