Permanent record
Trump directed agencies to curtail disparate-impact liability and enforcement
- Event date
- Category
- Civil-rights enforcement
- Posture:
- Executive order — enforcement rollback directed
The order instructed agencies to deprioritize and, where legally permissible, eliminate disparate-impact liability. The administration framed the change as colorblind meritocracy; the ACLU and other civil-rights advocates argued disparate-impact doctrine is a statutory tool for challenging neutral policies with discriminatory effects.
Dated sources
- — White House executive order (Primary executive record)
- — American Civil Liberties Union (Civil-rights legal analysis)
Correction status
No substantive correction recorded for this version.
Canonical citation
Trump directed agencies to curtail disparate-impact liability and enforcement. Donaldtrumpler.com. https://donaldtrumpler.com/records/2025-04-23-disparate-impact-order/
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