( June 12, 2026, 3:04 PM EDT) -- WASHINGTON, D.C. — In a response to a formal request from the chair of the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, the U.S. Department of Justice’s Office of Legal Counsel (OLC) issued an opinion stating that the guidelines the commission uses to evaluate disparate-impact liability under Title VII of the Civil Rights Act “are unconstitutional because they contemplate liability based on disparate effects alone, without regard to an employer’s likely intent, and pressure employers to engage in race-based decisionmaking.”...