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Welcome to achievement. President Donald Trump signed a Executive order Which points to a central principle of the law of civil rights of the lungs knows ashes Disparate impact. And he thought he cannot get rid of him completely on his own, he may be waiting for conservative judges in the Supreme Court.
What is the disparate impact? It is the legal concept that certain practices can violate the Federal Civil Rights Law because certain demography affects differently, even if explicit or intentional discrimination is not proven.
For example: everyone knows that it would be illegal for an employer to say that people of a certain race will not hire. But what happens if an employer shows applicants to Previously arrested? Under a disparate impact analysis, if doing that ends with disproportionate applicants from a demographic group, it could be an illegal violation of the Civil Rights Law.
The disparate impact is an application of the corners Have the tasks of the idea too farand that the standards that affect different demographic data should not necessarily be presumed illegal.
What did Trump do? Trump’s order declares that American policy “will eliminate the use of disparate impact responsibility in all possible degree.” The reversal of some regulations begins, while depressing the application of others.
The pending federal actions that are based on a disparate impact analysis, such as civil rights or investigations, must be evaluated to comply with this order, says Trump. It also addresses the possibility that state laws or policies that depend on disparate impact can be illegal.
Can you hear this? Trump can try to back up the application, but the disparate impact was encoded in A ruling of the 1971 Supreme Court That you cannot get rid of your account or on your own. But right -right activists They are waiting That the conservative majority of the court are ready to throw that long hero.
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