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Trump's DOT rescinded a regulation that allowed enforcement against policies with unequal effects on protected groups, even without proof of intent to discriminate. The move weakens enforcement of civil rights protections in transportation.
Trump's DOT repealed a regulation that allowed the department to go after transportation policies with unequal effects on protected groups—even if no one could prove intentional discrimination. This "disparate impact" rule was one of the main tools for catching discrimination that wasn't explicitly written into law but happened anyway through neutral-sounding policies.
Removing it weakens enforcement in a specific, measurable way. Regulators now have to prove intent to discriminate rather than just showing that a policy hurts one group more than another. This is a known playbook: policies that deny transit funding to low-income areas or allow toll systems that price out poor commuters can now survive scrutiny much more easily, as long as no one on paper intended to hurt minorities. The rule was controversial on the right, but that doesn't make its removal small—it's a real reduction in what regulators can do to stop inequality baked into infrastructure.
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