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Attorney explains how Obama-Biden admin prioritized race over merit for air traffic controllers
Alpha News ^ | February 24, 2025 | Liz Collin

Posted on 02/24/2025 7:41:49 AM PST by george76

Grady Block is an attorney with Mountain States Legal Foundation, which represents a group of air traffic controller candidates. He said the Obama-Biden administration looked at their clients and said, "You know, this looks a little bit too white for what we want."..

There is a sense of nervousness in the air after recent plane crashes across the country and many are questioning if hiring standards could be to blame.

An attorney at the forefront of a historic lawsuit shared some discoveries from court on a recent episode of Liz Collin Reports.

Grady Block is an attorney with Mountain States Legal Foundation. The lawsuit goes back a decade and was filed on behalf of a group of air traffic controller applicants.

Block explained his involvement: “We represent a group of about a thousand plaintiffs in this class action against the FAA. They are people who went to college, went through collegiate training initiatives, everything they were supposed to do. All of them passed with flying colors. A lot of them passed with … a hundred percent across the board.”

What matters most: qualifications or DEI?..

Despite their qualifications, Block said, “the Obama-Biden administration looked at, looked at the hiring class and said, ‘You know, this looks a little bit too white for what we want. We want to expand DEI initiatives.'”

“So they got rid of the CTI program, which was the collegiate training initiative, and they switched the entire thing to a new questionnaire that was based on biographical information, and it was designed to effectively gerrymander out the white people from the hiring class. So we asserted Title VII claims against them, and you know, like you mentioned, it was quite a long time ago. This was 10 years ago in 2015 when we filed the suit. And so we’ve been litigating ever since then,” Block explained.

“This is something that should have been fixed, well it should have never been a problem, but it should have been fixed from the outset and you know the problem has only gotten worse when you’re excluding people from the hiring class,” he added.

The Trump administration is aware..

Vice President JD Vance brought up the lawsuit after the recent tragedy at Reagan National Airport.

“I think it’s a mix of emotions. There are some people that are happy that there are eyeballs on the situation now that people are actually aware of this issue … a lot of people had no idea that there’s a massive understaffing at the FAA for air traffic controllers and it leads to incredibly dangerous situations … some people are still just very frustrated. These people went to college, spent tons of money to try to become air traffic controllers and then to have the entire carpet just yanked out from under them. It’s a really sad situation,” Block said of his clients.

Block also noted, “There are about 14,000 air traffic controllers in the country and they excluded a class of a thousand so that problem is just gonna exacerbate and what’s unfortunate is you can’t just wave a wand to just fill those positions, you know. And with that is gonna come very dangerous like the one we saw at Reagan … It’s really unfortunate but it is definitely the situation we find ourselves in.”

“We’re in a lot friendlier administration now than we were two months ago. I’m very hopeful that what will happen next is that President Trump will hopefully order the DOJ to one, stop asserting bogus privileges over the 14,000 documents so we can continue. But even better, ideally he orders us to settle the case. We can move on and get back to hiring based on merit instead of just somebody’s race,” he added.


TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Government; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: airtraffic; atc; controller; faa; obama; race
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1 posted on 02/24/2025 7:41:49 AM PST by george76
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To: george76

Any body that is or was involved with government hiring from the 70’s on.

Knew that white males were given 2nd place.


2 posted on 02/24/2025 7:47:09 AM PST by riverrunner
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To: riverrunner

Agree, maybe even 3rd place.


3 posted on 02/24/2025 7:47:52 AM PST by Parley Baer
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To: george76

Everyone knows that DEI will make people DIE.


4 posted on 02/24/2025 7:54:21 AM PST by MtnClimber (For photos of scenery, wildlife and climbing, click on my screen name for my FR home page.)
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To: riverrunner

My wife and I were both laid off in the middle of our airline careers. She got hired by the FAA and ultimately became an enroute air traffic controller. “It was the most difficult thing I have ever done”. (After 4 years we were recalled to the airlines. She retired as a 747 captain after flying the Pacific for 5 years.)


5 posted on 02/24/2025 7:57:33 AM PST by QBFimi (It is not your responsibility to finish the work of perfecting the world... Tarfon)
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To: george76

Sickening


6 posted on 02/24/2025 8:04:55 AM PST by yldstrk (Nothing like the truth)
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To: george76

Bkmk


7 posted on 02/24/2025 8:07:33 AM PST by sauropod (Make sure Satan has to climb over a lot of Scripture to get to you. John MacArthur Ne supra crepidam)
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To: MtnClimber

By design..


8 posted on 02/24/2025 8:07:42 AM PST by george76 (Ward Churchill : Fake Indian, Fake Scholarship, and Fake Art)
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To: yldstrk

1,000 who majored in air-traffic control or had military flying experience were rejected for air-traffic control jobs because they were white males..

https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/4294684/posts


9 posted on 02/24/2025 8:09:28 AM PST by george76 (Ward Churchill : Fake Indian, Fake Scholarship, and Fake Art)
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This was 10 years ago in 2015 when we filed the suit. And so we’ve been litigating ever since then

That's exactly what I fear will happen to all these legal impediments to President Trump's initiatives.

10 posted on 02/24/2025 8:16:14 AM PST by Jeff Chandler
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I heard about this from an air traffic controller who refuses to fly commercial due to the poor quality of people in her profession. It’s a disaster.


11 posted on 02/24/2025 8:23:50 AM PST by Spok (What would Rush say?)
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To: Jeff Chandler

Justice delayed is ..


12 posted on 02/24/2025 8:24:17 AM PST by george76 (Ward Churchill : Fake Indian, Fake Scholarship, and Fake Art)
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To: Spok

Thanks to DEI, more than 3,000 top-performing, motivated applicants who applied as air traffic controllers to the FAA lost out because they were white.

https://x.com/stillgray/status/1884858597462442427


13 posted on 02/24/2025 8:26:09 AM PST by george76 (Ward Churchill : Fake Indian, Fake Scholarship, and Fake Art)
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Grady Block, Mountain States Legal Foundation atty, reps air traffic controller candidates.

Block related how racist Obama-Biden said, “...the group was too white for what we want.”..


Typical Obama.....looked at the world thru black eyeballs.

He was always whining “America was too white.”


14 posted on 02/24/2025 8:26:46 AM PST by Liz
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To: george76
Justice delayed is . . . the American way!
15 posted on 02/24/2025 8:28:16 AM PST by Jeff Chandler
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Obama/Biden switched the qualifying a/c accomplishments to a dumbed down questionnaire based
on “biographical information,” radically designed to throw out white people from qualifying.

“So we asserted Title VII claims against them.
This was 10 years ago in 2015 when we filed the suit.”

“And so we’ve been litigating ever since then,” Block explained.


16 posted on 02/24/2025 8:32:43 AM PST by Liz
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17 posted on 02/24/2025 8:42:09 AM PST by Pollard (Zone 6b)
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To: riverrunner

Ever since they added the “check your race” boxes to the applications...that was the set-up for later DEI garbage


18 posted on 02/24/2025 8:46:15 AM PST by jpp113
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To: Pollard

NO WAY the Black Hawk pilot did not see the American Airlines plane. They flew right into it..

https://x.com/stillgray/status/1885300723845411162


19 posted on 02/24/2025 8:49:53 AM PST by george76 (Ward Churchill : Fake Indian, Fake Scholarship, and Fake Art)
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If they had hired more Muslims, they could have increased the aircraft’ crash occurrence by at least 50%.


20 posted on 02/24/2025 9:25:41 AM PST by MrBambaLaMamba (אני עומד לצד ישראל. The only good commie is one that's dead - Country Joe McDonald )
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