A Trump-Appointed EEOC Commissioner has Initiated Investigations Into Employers’ Abortion Travel Benefit Policies
“Andrea Lucas is known for prioritizing religious discrimination over other forms of discrimination investigated by the EEOC, which includes race discrimination, sex discrimination and sexual harassment.”
According to five attorneys with knowledge of the situation, Lucas is deploying a rarely used EEOC procedure to target these companies, which have yet to be named, without the approval of the rest of commission.
This attempt to redirect the government’s limited civil rights resources to attacking women’s rights is evidence of the continuing harms caused by the Trump administration to women.
Before joining the EEOC, Lucas practiced law at Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher LLP, a high-powered conservative law firm, currently challenging the Indian Child Welfare Act as reverse discrimination against white people because the law prefers Native American people in the adoption of Native American children.”
* (Ms Magazine, 12/5/2022 by CARRIE N. BAKER)
This appears to be a continuation of a previous EEOC employee’s pursuit (Sharon Gustafson), who served under Trump, but was fired by Biden.
Ms Gustafson was also known for pursuing religious discrimination in the workplace during her tenure. Her legal stances prompted at least one EEOC attorney to voice concern that the agency’s approach in a religious bias lawsuit against Kroger Co. could impinge on the rights of LGBT workers.
So Now It’s Illegal In Florida To Have A Belief… DeSantis And His Followers Are To Blame
It is hard to imagine they could say this without questioning themselves, but this actually happened. Florida’s Stop WOKE Act that DeSantis brought to life made it it illegal for anyone who takes state money, including teachers and most college professors, to espouse that unquestionably accurate belief (“The belief there are systemic injustices in American society and the need to address them.”)
A belief is confidence in the truth or existence of something not immediately susceptible to rigorous proof… faith or trust. I just don’t understand how a personal belief could be made illegal. It would be like making free speech against the law (oh wait, they’ve already done that).
It may not be long before there are rigorous requirements to live in the state of Florida; they could include things like: you must be unquestionably loyal to the far right Republican Party, you have to be really old (and possibly feeble minded), your must be cisgender; you can’t be transgender and you can’t be gay, you must carry a gun (preferably an AR 15), you can’t be an immigrant, you must subscribe to an approved religion and who knows what other fascist requirements might be enforced.
Trump, the de facto head of the Republican Party is in favor of forgetting The Constitution, our laws, and just naming himself Emperor of America.
While he lives in his own fantasy land, you would think other party leaders would be horrified at his insane antics, but they don’t seem to care that their leader is delusional.
Although Democrats were horrified, Here’s one Republican Congressman’s comment regarding Trump’s statement… “He [Trump] says a lot of things, but that doesn’t mean that it’s ever going to happen. So you got to accept fact from fantasy — and fantasy is that we’re going to suspend the Constitution and go backwards.”
While this guy’s comment is pretty scary, the fact that the majority of Republicans haven’t repudiated Trump publicly is telling of their acceptance of a Fascist ideology.
It is beyond scary that the President of the United States of America must remind us that the holocaust was real. Millions of Jews, Roma, gay people, and other minorities were rounded up and exterminated. People admiring Hitler are sick.
“The role of extremist white nationalists in the GOP may be approaching an inflection point.
The backlash against former President Donald Trump’s meeting with Nick Fuentes, an avowed racist, anti-Semite, and Christian nationalist, has compelled more Republican officeholders than at any point since the Charlottesville riot in 2017 to publicly condemn those extremist views.”
Initially turned down, it looks like “Don’t Say Hanukkah” has been reversed down in the stormy sunshine state… I think the powers that be (mainly DeSantis) realized their original decision could turn into a “Don’t Say Christmas” situation for them.
Millennials today hold only 4.6% of the nation’s wealth and, along with Zoomers, struggle to own a home and are deeply in debt. What happened? In a word, Republicans…
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