A commissioner fired by President Donald Trump sued the president on April 9, alleging his termination of her violated federal law.
Jocelyn Samuels, a former Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) commissioner, said she was fired in January in an email from a White House official that said she tried to “impose an expansive and improper DEI agenda on America’s workplaces,” and was involved with “furthering a series of race-based initiatives that are themselves mired in racism.”
But that conduct, said lawyers for Samuels, merely reflects how Samuels holds different policy views from Trump and does not give the president the power to remove an EEOC commissioner….