Kalpana Kotagal

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Strict Scrutiny · Dude Process, Not Due Process · 27 Jul 2026 podcast

And I think about them as really fostering.

These are the things that actually foster a true meritocracy, right?

These are the things.

that break down barriers to equal opportunity to ensure that every single worker, regardless of their background, has a chance to work, to contribute, to contribute to their families and their economy.

So there's like a whole raft, I think, of DEI practices.

And the risk of rolling them back, right, is that we erase gains in the workplace that have been made for women and people of color and people with disabilities and the list goes on.

I mean, I think it's quite clear that this agency is just increasingly an arm of the White House.

I think that that's quite clear.

Just to give you one example beyond the ones that you've mentioned about the chair's video, we have a new at the EOC, a new national enforcement plan, which enshrines

These priorities, these priorities of the administration, including remedying what they describe as DEI-related discrimination, it also includes defending the quote-unquote binary reality of sex.

You know, this is where the decision not to investigate disparate impact is enshrined.

Yeah.

It also makes explicit that the EEOC is not an independent agency.

So, right, these things are like clearly going hand in hand.

I think it's worth really noting that under the guise or the language of prioritizing even handed enforcement, which is what this chair likes to talk about, the reality is that the agency is redirecting limited resources toward people.

prosecuting this administration's grievances and protecting this administration's most favored groups.

And I think we see that happening on a day-to-day basis.

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