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From Fox News: A legal group closely aligned with President Donald Trump is joining a federal court battle in Washington, D.C., to overturn a Carter-era consent decree that bars the government from using merit-based hiring, a resolution that, if overturned, would dissolve one of the most influential civil service decisions of the last 40 years.
The lawsuit targets the Luevano consent decree, an agreement that Black and Hispanic plaintiffs struck with the government under President Jimmy Carter in 1981. The settlement ended merit-based hiring practices for federal government agencies and required written tests to be replaced with alternative assessments.
The America First Legal Foundation (AFL), a group aligned with Trump, has filed a federal complaint in Washington, D.C., that aims to dismantle what it calls a dated and illegal effort to promote diversity in federal hiring that sidelines more qualified candidates.
The Office of Personnel Management requested an end to the system, which was first established during the Carter era. Now, AFL has been joined by the firm Boyden Gray, PLLC, arguing that the outdated system violates Supreme Court precedent annd illegally promotes race-based hiring.
“America is missing out on top talent because of an illegal, 44-year-old consent decree,” Nick Barry, senior counsel at AFL, told Fox News Digital. “We must move back to merit-based evaluations. Race and other immutable traits have no place in that process.”
“We must move back to merit-based evaluations,” Barry added. “Race, color and other immutable characteristics have no place in that evaluation.”
A Trump-aligned legal group, America First Legal (AFL), is challenging a 44-year-old consent decree that prevents the use of merit-based hiring in federal government jobs. Their goal: to restore a system where qualifications—not diversity mandates—determine hiring.
— Lieutenant Colonel Reagan (@bobbyr75) May 18, 2025
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