On Wednesday, April 23, 2025, President Trump signed EO 14281, titled Restoring Equality of Opportunity and Meritocracy (EO), stating a new Trump Administration policy “to eliminate the use of ...

This story was originally published on HR Dive. To receive daily news and insights, subscribe to our free daily HR Dive newsletter. President Donald Trump issued an executive order Wednesday directing ...

On November 13, 2025, the CFPB published in the Federal Register a significant proposed rule (the “Proposal”) that would ...

President Donald Trump recently ordered federal agencies not to enforce laws that prohibit policies and practices with discriminatory impacts that are often unintended. Curbing so-called "disparate ...

President Trump has ordered federal agencies to halt their use of “disparate-impact liability,” which has been used to assess whether policies discriminate against different groups. By Erica L. Green ...

Measured in Trump time, it took eons to announce — but the White House has finally taken the most important step it can to restore meritocracy to American society: eliminating disparate-impact theory ...

On April 23, President Donald Trump signed an executive order aimed at narrowing civil rights protections and directing federal agencies to roll back the use of the disparate impact standard in "all ...

The latest target in Trump’s war on civil rights is a legal theory known as “disparate impact.” An April 23 executive order calls for eliminating the theory “to the maximum degree possible.” According ...