Signal thing is wild
Can I get a legal interpretation of this.
https://www.whitehouse.gov/presidential-actions/2025/04/restoring-equality-of-opportunity-and-meritocracy/
Obviously written by some true believer fed soc hardos. Some nice rhetoric to start out, but when it gets into the law, it's flat out dangerous lies. It's an attempt to hollow out a key equal protection principle that was developed throughout the 20th century.
Look at this: "A key tool of this movement is disparate-impact liability, which holds that a near insurmountable presumption of unlawful discrimination exists where there are any differences in outcomes in certain circumstances among different races, sexes, or similar groups, even if there is no facially discriminatory policy or practice or discriminatory intent involved, and even if everyone has an equal opportunity to succeed. "
That is flat-out bullshit. It's completely flipped backwards. It's almost impossible to prove as the proponent, unless you have the people who wrote the law on tape blatantly admitting their secret, racist motivations. Disparate impact is a bulwark against the use of seemingly race-neutral policies to effect a discriminatory purpose. When coupled with their arguments against (benign) race-conscious policies like diversity initiatives in higher education, what you end up with is a regime where you can do whatever you want for whatever reason you want, so long as you don't admit it out loud.
