{"id":1386,"date":"2026-06-10T21:12:54","date_gmt":"2026-06-10T21:12:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nextaddressamerica.com\/?p=1386"},"modified":"2026-06-10T21:12:54","modified_gmt":"2026-06-10T21:12:54","slug":"trumps-supreme-court-is-coming-for-your-job-analysis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nextaddressamerica.com\/?p=1386","title":{"rendered":"Trump\u2019s Supreme Court is coming for your job: analysis"},"content":{"rendered":"
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In April, the Supreme Court handed down a controversial decision which critics say \u201ceviscerated<\/u>\u201d the Voting Rights Act. Now, according to new reporting from Vox<\/u>, the impact of this decision is about to spread from the voting box to the workplace. <\/p>\n

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Per Vox, \u201cPresident Donald Trump\u2019s Department of Justice released an opinion<\/u> on Tuesday that, in the likely event it is embraced by a Republican-controlled federal judiciary, would make it significantly harder for plaintiffs who face employment discrimination to prevail in court.\u201d It was notable that the opinion was signed by T. Elliot Gaiser, head of the Office of Legal Counsel and a former law clerk to Justice Samuel Alito, author of the Supreme Court\u2019s recent decision in Louisiana v. Callais<\/u>, which gutted a key provision of the Voting Rights Act. <\/p>\n

Essentially, Gaiser\u2019s opinion argues that the same logic Alito used to attack voting rights can be applied to employment anti-discrimination law. According to Vox senior Supreme Court correspondent Ian Millhiser, \u201cif you accept Alito\u2019s opinion in Callais as legitimate, then Gaiser\u2019s approach to employment discrimination is hardly a stretch. Indeed, it is the next logical move in the Republican Party\u2019s broader campaign to weaken civil rights protections for racial minorities.\u201d<\/p>\n

As Millhiser explains, \u201cThe 1982 law that Alito targeted in Callais provided that voting rights plaintiffs who challenged a state election law did not need to prove that state lawmakers acted with racist intent<\/u> in order to prevail. Under that law, which was repealed by Callais, a state law that \u2018results\u2019 in voters having their right to vote diminished due to their race may also be challenged.\u201d Now, because of the Supreme Court\u2019s decision, voting districts can more or less be gerrymandered at will, even scrubbing Black districts entirely out of existence, because the language in Alito’s opinion makes it nearly impossible to prove racist intent.<\/p>\n

Gaiser\u2019s decision concerns a similar law regarding employment, and he\u2019s making essentially the same argument raised by conservative justices: that a discrimination case can prevail only if racist or sexist intent is explicit. And given these similarities, says Millhiser, Gaiser\u2019s claim \u201cis likely to prevail before a Republican Supreme Court.\u201d<\/p>\n

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According to Millhiser, there are two upshots to this conclusion: \u201cOne is that it should be significantly harder for many employment discrimination plaintiffs to prevail. The other, which is potentially even more significant, is that elected officials should lose much of their power to remedy discrimination of all kinds, and the scope of civil rights law should be determined primarily by the Supreme Court.\u201d<\/p>\n

As Millhiser explains, \u201cboth the Voting Rights Act\u2019s results test and employment discrimination\u2019s disparate impact test, after all, were enacted into law by Congress. But the Republican Party\u2019s consistent position on civil rights laws is that democratically enacted civil rights laws must bow to the whims of Republican justices.\u201d<\/p>\n

In essence, it is the position of conservatives on the court that \u201cthese difficult policy questions should be removed from the democratic process and given to a Republican judiciary.\u201d Millhiser asserts that this should raise troubling questions as to \u201cwhy six Republican lawyers in black robes have more insight into US civil rights policy than the people American voters elected to make these decisions.\u201d<\/p>\n

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