President Donald Trump has nominated an attorney with the Justice's Department's Civil Rights Division to fill one of two vacancies on the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, potentially solidifying a three-member Republican majority through at least 2029.
Three universities told a Pennsylvania federal judge Monday that the 11th Amendment shields them from a lawsuit by a group of college athletes fighting to be recognized as employees, arguing that as arms of the state they cannot be sued privately in federal court.
The U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission has told the Fourth Circuit a lower court erred when it nixed retaliation claims from a consulting firm director who said her male boss mistreated her, arguing the trial court hadn't properly applied a 2006 U.S. Supreme Court decision.