President Donald Trump's pick to serve as the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission's general counsel largely sidestepped sharp questions from a Senate Democrat on Tuesday about the agency's retreat on policing gender identity discrimination while indicating that combatting religious bias was a priority.
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.