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| For The First Time In 40 Years, The Federal Government Can Judge Applicants By Merit |
| 2025-08-03 |
| [DailyWire] The move opens the door to an elite federal workforce — and a major victory for President Donald Trump. A decades-old court order that blocked the federal government from using tests to measure job applicants’ skills was terminated by a D.C. judge on Friday, setting the stage for an overhaul of the federal workforce that could be one of President Donald Trump’s most lasting achievements. In 1981, Angel Luevano sued the federal government over the Professional and Administrative Career Examination, a test that helped identify the best and brightest out of the tens of thousands who apply for government jobs each year. Luevano argued that the test kept too many blacks and Hispanics out of government, and, in the waning days of President Jimmy Carter’s administration, OPM agreed to pause the test for five years. Forty-four years later, the “Luevano Consent Decree” was somehow still intact. In January, the Trump administration filed a brief challenging the agreement — a feat which required reopening a decades-closed court case in which the original judge had died. The administration argued that it was doubtful the decree was ever appropriate, and that, with Supreme Court case law outlawing affirmative action, it was certainly not now. Angel Luevano is still alive, and agreed to terminate the consent decree, court papers show. Luevano was represented by lawyers from Hispanic and black civil rights groups, two of whom did not return a request for comment. For almost half a century, the federal government has operated like a college that didn’t look at SAT scores when admitting students. Rescinding the Luevano Consent Decree could take the government from safety-school status to Ivy League. Read the rest at the link |
| Posted by:NoMoreBS |
| #6 Good. Let's start with the IC. |
| Posted by: DooDahMan 2025-08-03 13:08 |
| #5 Sounds like the judge engaged in the standard misinterpretation of Griggs vs. Duke Power. That decision held that tests that didn't measure job skill and showed disparate impact were verboten. If you have a validated test there is no issue. |
| Posted by: Varmint Poodle5244 2025-08-03 10:10 |
| #4 Sounds good on paper, but let's see what actually transpires. |
| Posted by: Besoeker 2025-08-03 06:09 |
| #3 WOW ! What a basic logical concept. A government operated by those best for the job, based on the job skills required and not some political agenda. |
| Posted by: NN2N1 2025-08-03 04:51 |
| #2 "Women & minorities hardest hit"? |
| Posted by: Grom the Affective 2025-08-03 02:40 |
| #1 I consider the term "Ivy League" to be a misnomer. At this moment in history, "Poison Ivy League" is far more accurate. |
| Posted by: Anguper Hupomosing9418 2025-08-03 00:59 |