Democrats waging holy war as Trump ends 50 years of affirmative-action tyranny

When President Donald Trump last week fired two Democratic commissioners of the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, Charlotte A.Burrows and Jocelyn Samuels, along with EEOC General Counsel Karla Gilbride, The New York Times predictably howled it was a “late night purge.”Democrats will likely launch a legal holy war to overturn Trump’s action — because it was a dagger strike at his effort to once and for all end affirmative action.  The EEOC firings followed Trump’s executive orders canceling federal diversity, equity and inclusion mandates and prohibiting federal agencies from imposing racial, ethnic or gender quotas.For more than half a century, the EEOC has been dishonestly dictating quotas to American businesses, schools and other institutions.  The agency compels submission through reckless lawsuits, ruinously unending investigations and public shame — tarnishing companies and other targets with accusations of racism or other bias. It’s been at it for decades: In 1994, then-chair Gilbert Casellas said, “I hope people worry when they get a call from the EEOC,” just as they fear a call from the IRS. Many businesses do, and for good reason: It creates from whole cloth new offenses that can’t be found in federal statute books.Under former President Joe Biden, the EEOC devoted itself to inventing new “protections” for LGBTQ+ employees and made transgender access to bathrooms a transcendent civil-rights issue.On its own decrees, the EEOC vastly expanded the definition of illegal sexual harassment to include “misgendering” a transgender person.Biden’s EEOC also decreed that women who claim they need time off or other accommodations to pursue abortions are entitled to special treatment.  If Trump had not acted, Democrats would have controlled the agency until at least 2026 — but because the president fired two of the three Democratic commissioners, it now has only two commissioners and is without a quorum, blocking its abil...