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Trump Fires 2 EEOC Democratic Commissioners In Rare Move (2 )
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President Donald Trump fired 2 Democratic Equal Employment Opportunity Commission members in an unmatched move that undercuts the Democrats’ voting bulk on the board, the pair confirmed in declarations Tuesday.
Trump's firing of EEOC Commissioners Jocelyn Samuels and Charlotte Burrows leaves two seats on the five-member civil liberties panel to be filled by nominations from the brand-new administration.
The president also axed the commission's general counsel, Karla Gilbride, who confirmed her dismissal in a statement published to LinkedIn on Tuesday evening.
The firings of Samuels and Burrows bypass historic precedent of leaving commissioners in place at the independent agency. Their ouster clears a path for the Trump administration to advance its second-term civil rights law program, which has actually up until now targeted diversity, employment equity, and addition programs and employment gender identity defenses through executive orders.
Due to staggered terms, the Democrats would have kept a majority on the five-member EEOC up until 2026, when Samuels’ term was set to end. Without the Democrats’ ballot bloc in place, just recently called acting chair, [employment](https://forum.batman.gainedge.org/index.php?action=profile
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