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#discrimination

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"After a recent change by the Trump administration, the federal government no longer explicitly prohibits contractors from having segregated restaurants, waiting rooms and drinking fountains.

The segregation clause is one of several identified in a public memo issued by the General Services Administration last month, affecting all civil federal agencies."

npr.org/sections/shots-health-

So this is the kind of comment I regularly get on benign videos about #disability from #maga people.

All I said was that Social Security shouldn't be touched, and that I was disabled, and sad at the state of the #usa.

They don't realize #scoopz automatically deletes hateful comments.

I am the only one who ever sees them, and I am making a video compilation of stupidity so it's FREE CONTENT for me later.

I am going to get views from their stupidity.

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“I think that that would be within the President’s constitutional authority under the removal power…there would be separate questions about whether that would violate other provisions of the #Constitution,” McArthur said.

Judge Justin Walker, a #Trump appointee on the panel, swooped in to try to salvage the moment, saying to the #DOJ atty that he didn’t think “you would have to go there,”pointing to the protections of the #14thAmendment.

Continued thread

The startling admission came in response to a federal judge’s hypothetical.

“Could the President decide that he wasn’t going to appoint or allow to remain in office any female heads of agencies or any heads over 40 years old?” Judge Karen Henderson, a Reagan appointee on the DC Circuit Court of Appeals, asked Dpty Asst AG Eric McArthur Tues in proceedings over the fired board members of two #independent agencies.

WTAF????

The #Trump #DOJ asserted in court Tuesday that, under their theories, the President’s removal power is so all-encompassing that he could fire all #female agency heads, as well as those over 40 years old.

#law #discrimination #sexism #ageism #MaleSupremacy
talkingpointsmemo.com/news/doj

TPM - Talking Points Memo · DOJ Asserts Trump Hypothetically Has Power To Purge All Female Agency Heads, Or Those Over 40By Kate Riga

Parents Sue Trump Administration for Allegedly Sabotaging Education Department’s Civil Rights Division

The class-action lawsuit claims that decimating the agency’s Office for Civil Rights will leave it unable to address issues of discrimination at school — violating the equal protection clause of the Fifth Amendment.
propublica.org/article/departm

ProPublicaParents Sue Trump Administration for Allegedly Sabotaging Education Department’s Civil Rights Division
More from ProPublica

Massive Layoffs at the Department of Education Erode Its Civil Rights Division

Only five of the agency’s civil rights offices remain nationwide. Those who are still with the department say it will now be “virtually impossible” to resolve discrimination complaints.

propublica.org/article/educati