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From 2024: FAA Sued For Throwing Out Air Traffic Controller Applications Based On Applicants’ Race
iotwreport.com ^ | January 30, 2025

Posted on 01/31/2025 5:57:38 AM PST by V_TWIN

A class-action lawsuit by the Mountain States Legal Foundation has found a substantial amount of documents showing discriminatory hiring practices by the Obama-era Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) initiative, which rejected qualified air traffic controllers based solely on race.

The lawsuit is led by Adam Laxalt, the Former Nevada Attorney General and co-counsel at Mountain States Legal Foundation. If it succeeds, it could set a new precedent and force companies and government agencies to hire employees based on skills, eliminating diversity quotas.

The lawsuit alleges that the FAA turned away more than 1,000 qualified air traffic controller applicants. These applicants passed the normal tests before the Obama-era FAA threw out the test results and the applicants with it.

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TOPICS: Chit/Chat
KEYWORDS: atc; faa; race
"the FAA turned away more than 1,000 qualified air traffic controller applicants"

Unbelievable

1 posted on 01/31/2025 5:57:38 AM PST by V_TWIN
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To: V_TWIN

Bttt


2 posted on 01/31/2025 6:09:58 AM PST by ChildOfThe60s (If you can remember the 60s, you weren't really there)
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To: V_TWIN

These b***dy liberals have a lot to answer for.


3 posted on 01/31/2025 6:12:29 AM PST by Churchillspirit (Pray for President Trump)
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To: Churchillspirit

It’s like kicking over a rock and seeing all the nasty, squirmy things living there!


4 posted on 01/31/2025 6:32:04 AM PST by SMARTY (In politics, stupidity is not a handicap. Napoleon Bonaparte I)
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To: V_TWIN
Elsewhere I have seen the figure of 3000.

If Obama's DEI order about air traffic controllers dates back to 2014, why didn't Trump try to do something about it in his first term? Under the radar?

5 posted on 01/31/2025 6:43:22 AM PST by Verginius Rufus
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To: V_TWIN
BTTT
6 posted on 01/31/2025 6:59:29 AM PST by linMcHlp
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To: Verginius Rufus

Trump did reverse the Obama standards in his first term. Then Biden changed them back to the Obama DEI standards.

EC


7 posted on 01/31/2025 7:08:25 AM PST by Ex-Con777
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To: V_TWIN

BTTT


8 posted on 01/31/2025 7:10:50 AM PST by nopardons
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To: V_TWIN

From Revolver:

“Andrew Brigida was one such student who spent forty thousand dollars and four years on his degree, achieved the highest possible score on the FAA’s aptitude test, and was still filtered out for being White. He is now leading a class-action lawsuit against the FAA.”

Let the lawsuits - and massive payouts, begin.


9 posted on 01/31/2025 7:18:06 AM PST by Bon of Babble (You Say You Want a Revolution?)
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To: V_TWIN

DEI will be the DEITH of us.


10 posted on 01/31/2025 7:18:57 AM PST by 1Old Pro
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To: V_TWIN

I tend to believe it, but I’m not quite sure how they’ll prove it in court.


11 posted on 01/31/2025 7:35:03 AM PST by libertylover (Our biggest problem, by far, is that almost all of big media is AGENDA-DRIVEN, not-truth driven.)
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To: 1Old Pro

Good one.....sad though.


12 posted on 01/31/2025 7:46:47 AM PST by Churchillspirit (Pray for President Trump)
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13 posted on 01/31/2025 7:54:32 AM PST by PMAS (Vote with your wallets, there are 80 million of us - No China made, No Amazon)
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To: V_TWIN

Whether or not it was a factor in the crash, this needs to be done away with.

We can also not let a crisis go to waste.


14 posted on 01/31/2025 7:55:42 AM PST by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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To: dfwgator

Totally agree.

Regardless of what happened, it has brought this insanity to light......a damned shame 67 souls had to be lost to do it.


15 posted on 01/31/2025 8:32:26 AM PST by V_TWIN (America...so great even the people that hate it refuse to leave!ly)
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To: Verginius Rufus

“why didn’t Trump try to do something about it in his first term?”

He says he did in his 1st term and that idiot biden changed it back to the way obama had it.


16 posted on 01/31/2025 8:35:38 AM PST by V_TWIN (America...so great even the people that hate it refuse to leave!ly)
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a damned shame 67 souls had to be lost to do it.

Unfortunately, the hardest lessons and longest-lasting changes in aviation stem from a large body count.

17 posted on 01/31/2025 9:05:39 AM PST by asinclair (It's too bad there will never be a RICO indictment of the DNC.)
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To: libertylover

Should be easy to prove. Just look at the application test scores of the people who got screwed over and those of the DEI hires.

Just need probable cause to prevail. And there’s that video encouraging DEI types to apply regardless of their qualifications.


18 posted on 01/31/2025 7:35:41 PM PST by WASCWatch ( WASC)
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