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Regan Rush

Sep 23, 2026

17:55
So, Maybe you could talk about some other areas like the environmental justice and housing and disparate impact that people may not be as familiar with.
18:07
That's right.
18:07
And so, yeah, it's absolutely been a through line.
18:10
And so disparate impact backing up, that is a form of discrimination.
18:17
It's a legal theory.
18:18
It's a form of discrimination where the... intent is not as obvious.
18:27
And in other words, you don't have somebody sort of jumping up and saying, oh, I'm treating you different because of X, Y, or Z.

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25:54
And and what led you to decide to use your voice in this way at this moment?
29:40
Is she doing what Democratic administrations have done, but on the other side? Or is this something more?
29:47
Just the recruitment of lawyers is not unusual.
29:50
I think that what is unusual here is just the wholesale rework of the division's mission.
29:58
And we are seeing the work that many of these people have done in the past, have worked for organizations who are committed to really rolling back civil rights in this country.
30:08
And so that is not something that we have seen to this degree.
30:12
Certainly, there is a documented history of politicized hiring during the Bush administration.
30:19
There was an Office of Inspector General report on that, and it was overt.
32:12
Was there anything resembling that before?

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