{"id":102131,"date":"2025-01-29T06:01:27","date_gmt":"2025-01-29T14:01:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/2025\/01\/29\/trump-fires-eeoc-commissioners-kneecapping-democrat-controlled-civil-rights-agency\/"},"modified":"2025-01-29T06:01:27","modified_gmt":"2025-01-29T14:01:27","slug":"trump-fires-eeoc-commissioners-kneecapping-democrat-controlled-civil-rights-agency","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/2025\/01\/29\/trump-fires-eeoc-commissioners-kneecapping-democrat-controlled-civil-rights-agency\/","title":{"rendered":"Trump Fires EEOC Commissioners, Kneecapping Democrat-Controlled Civil Rights Agency"},"content":{"rendered":"

A White House official defended the purge, calling the three women who lost their jobs “far-left appointees with radical records of upending longstanding labor law.”<\/p>\n

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Testing the bounds of his authority, President Donald Trump fired two of the three Democratic members of the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, leaving it without the quorum needed to conduct business.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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The ousters, carried out late Monday night, marked the first presidential firing of EEOC commissioners since the civil rights agency\u2019s founding 60 years ago. The purged commissioners\u2014Jocelyn Samuels and Charlotte Burrows\u2014said in statements that they\u2019re considering legal challenges.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

A White House official defended the purge, calling the three women who lost their jobs “far-left appointees with radical records of upending longstanding labor law.” \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Testing the bounds of his authority, President Donald Trump fired two of the three Democratic members of the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, leaving it without the quorum needed to […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":102132,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-102131","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-law-com"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/xira.com\/p\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/legal-news-69gfqS.jpeg?fit=768%2C633&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/102131","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=102131"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/102131\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/102132"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=102131"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=102131"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=102131"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}