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EEOC Adopts New National Enforcement Plan for FY 2025–2029: Key Implications for Nonprofit Employers
The EEOC rescinded its prior Strategic Enforcement Plan on June 4 and replaced it with a new National Enforcement Plan for FY 2025–2029. The new plan shifts enforcement emphasis toward intentional discrimination and DEI-related employment practices, deprioritizes disparate impact, and ties enforcement discretion expressly to current executive branch policy.
DOJ Proposes to Shield Its Attorneys from State Bar Oversight
DOJ has proposed exempting federal prosecutors from state professional-conduct rules in any state where they practice, which would make federal attorneys uniquely unaccountable to the same ethical regime that governs every other lawyer in the jurisdiction.
Resurrecting the U.S. Department of Education?
A Massachusetts federal court ordered the Trump administration to reinstate hundreds of Department of Education employees, reviving the broader constitutional question of whether the executive branch can effectively eliminate a Cabinet-level agency that Congress created.
SCOTUS Rules 4-4 on Major Charter School Case
When the Supreme Court splits 4-4, the lower court's ruling stands but sets no national precedent, leaving charter school authorizers, advocates, and litigants nationwide without the clear constitutional answer they came to the Court to find.
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