Aaron Sibarium writes for the Washington Free Beacon about one Trump administration staffer performing critical work.
The Trump administration has launched an unprecedented campaign against diversity programs, affirmative action, and transgender initiatives—and its weapon of choice has been the civil rights state.
A key wielder of that weapon has been Andrea Lucas, the acting chair of the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission. Appointed as a commissioner in the final year of Trump’s first term, Lucas, a Republican, remained on the EEOC throughout the Biden administration and was tapped to lead the agency in January of this year. Since then, she has gotten top law firms to ditch their DEI initiatives, opened an investigation of Harvard University, and obtained a $21 million settlement for Jewish employees at Columbia University. She has also pledged to protect American workers from “national origin discrimination” and defend the biological definition of sex.
Lucas was confirmed by the Senate last week for a second term as EEOC commissioner. Now, in an exclusive interview with the Washington Free Beacon, she lays out her priorities for the agency and the conservative case for civil rights.
Lucas rejects the idea that anti-discrimination law has a built-in left-wing bias. The problem, in her view, is that conservatives “ceded the field to liberals,” eschewing jobs in the civil rights bureaucracy and leaving it in the hands of their enemies.
“When the only people who use civil rights laws are leftists, the law will always trend left,” Lucas says. “Conservatives did not realize how conservative civil rights law was and let the left skew it in all sorts of ways.”
Lucas’s goal is to right that left-wing skew. In her interview with the Free Beacon, … she describes how she used her time in the Biden administration to lay the groundwork for Trump’s assault on DEI. She argues that Republicans should embrace tools like the commissioner’s charge, which allows an EEOC commissioner to launch a probe unilaterally.
