News Executive order “Restoring Equality of Opportunity and Meritocracy”
News Executive order “Restoring Equality of Opportunity and Meritocracy”
Apr 25 2025, 10:50 AM
Individual_Crab7578 And as many of us have been fearing for months, it looks like he’s trying to open the way to go after our financial independence.Down in section 6 you’ll find this gem:
“Within 45 days of the date of this order, the Attorney General, the Secretary of Housing and Urban Development, the Director of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, the Chair of the Federal Trade Commission, and the heads of other agencies responsible for enforcement of the Equal Credit Opportunity Act (Public Law 93-495), Title VIII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 (the Fair Housing Act (Public Law 90-284, as amended)), or laws prohibiting unfair, deceptive, or abusive acts or practices shall evaluate all pending proceedings that rely on theories of disparate-impact liability and take appropriate action with respect to such matters consistent with the policy of this order.”
Equal Credit Opportunity act….
From Wikipedia: “Before the enactment of the law, lenders and the federal government frequently and explicitly discriminated against female loan applicants and held female applicants to different standards from male applicants.[6] A large coalition of women's and civil rights groups pressured the government to pass the ECOA (and the Housing and Community Development Act of 1974) to prohibit such discrimination.[6][7]”
Link to the EO: https://www.whitehouse.gov/presidential-actions/2025/04/restoring-equality-of-opportunity-and-meritocracy/
The executive order spends a lot of its beginning demonizing "disparate-impact liability," and after that it goes on to claim it is going to eliminate it.
Executive Order: Restoring Equality of Opportunity and Meritocracy Sec. 2. Policy. It is the policy of the United States to eliminate the use of disparate-impact liability in all contexts to the maximum degree possible to avoid violating the Constitution, Federal civil rights laws, and basic American ideals.
What is disparate-impact liability?
Quote:Disparate impact liability holds employers and other entities accountable for policies or practices that have a disproportionately negative impact on a protected group, even if the intent of the policy is not discriminatory.
So... Get ready for a lot of institutionalized dogwhistles that prevent opportunities for marginalized groups again... Since according to this EO, it "doesn't matter" if some requirement or practice discriminates as long as it doesn't literally say it discriminates. We all know discrimination is always super obvious and never sneaky and insidious! /s
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r/TwoXChromosomes posted that a "new EO just dropped": https://www.reddit.com/r/TwoXChromosomes/comments/1k6glg8/new_eo_just_dropped/
Individual_Crab7578 And as many of us have been fearing for months, it looks like he’s trying to open the way to go after our financial independence.Down in section 6 you’ll find this gem:
“Within 45 days of the date of this order, the Attorney General, the Secretary of Housing and Urban Development, the Director of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, the Chair of the Federal Trade Commission, and the heads of other agencies responsible for enforcement of the Equal Credit Opportunity Act (Public Law 93-495), Title VIII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 (the Fair Housing Act (Public Law 90-284, as amended)), or laws prohibiting unfair, deceptive, or abusive acts or practices shall evaluate all pending proceedings that rely on theories of disparate-impact liability and take appropriate action with respect to such matters consistent with the policy of this order.”
Equal Credit Opportunity act….
From Wikipedia: “Before the enactment of the law, lenders and the federal government frequently and explicitly discriminated against female loan applicants and held female applicants to different standards from male applicants.[6] A large coalition of women's and civil rights groups pressured the government to pass the ECOA (and the Housing and Community Development Act of 1974) to prohibit such discrimination.[6][7]”
Link to the EO: https://www.whitehouse.gov/presidential-actions/2025/04/restoring-equality-of-opportunity-and-meritocracy/
The executive order spends a lot of its beginning demonizing "disparate-impact liability," and after that it goes on to claim it is going to eliminate it.
Executive Order: Restoring Equality of Opportunity and Meritocracy Sec. 2. Policy. It is the policy of the United States to eliminate the use of disparate-impact liability in all contexts to the maximum degree possible to avoid violating the Constitution, Federal civil rights laws, and basic American ideals.
What is disparate-impact liability?
Quote:Disparate impact liability holds employers and other entities accountable for policies or practices that have a disproportionately negative impact on a protected group, even if the intent of the policy is not discriminatory.
So... Get ready for a lot of institutionalized dogwhistles that prevent opportunities for marginalized groups again... Since according to this EO, it "doesn't matter" if some requirement or practice discriminates as long as it doesn't literally say it discriminates. We all know discrimination is always super obvious and never sneaky and insidious! /s
Kozlik's regular member account. 🍀🐐
