{"id":221131,"date":"2026-05-05T21:04:09","date_gmt":"2026-05-05T21:04:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/221131\/"},"modified":"2026-05-05T21:04:09","modified_gmt":"2026-05-05T21:04:09","slug":"trumps-eeoc-sues-the-new-york-times-over-reverse-discrimination-claims","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/221131\/","title":{"rendered":"Trump’s EEOC Sues The New York Times Over Reverse Discrimination Claims"},"content":{"rendered":"

\n\tThe Equal Employment Opportunity Commission<\/a> filed suit against The New York Times<\/a> on Tuesday, alleging that it violated federal law when it passed up a white male employee for a promotion because of his race or sex.<\/p>\n

\n\tThe lawsuit reflects a shift in the Trump administration to litigation claims over alleged reverse discrimination, following his executive order last year that went after public and private diversity, equity and inclusion programs.<\/p>\n

\n\tBut a Times spokesperson has characterized the litigation as \u201cpolitically motivated.\u201d The media outlet has long been a target of the president\u2019s attacks.<\/p>\n

\n\tThe lawsuit claims that a longtime editor, a white man with extensive experience in real estate journalism, was left out of final interviews for a deputy real estate editor position early last year. Per the EEOC<\/a>, the lawsuit claims that the person hired was a \u201cnon-white female with little to no experience in real estate journalism, despite such experience being a requirement for the real estate editor position.\u201d The lawsuit also claims that selected the candidate was selected for the position \u201cdespite the company\u2019s own final interview panel rating her less favorably than two other final candidates,\u201d per the EEOC. <\/p>\n

\n\tAndrea Lucas, chair of the EEOC, said in a statement, \u201cNo matter the size or power of the employer, the EEOC under my leadership will not pull punches in ensuring evenhanded, colorblind enforcement of Title VII to protect America\u2019s workers, including white males. Federal law is clear: making hiring or promotion decisions motivated in whole or in part by race or sex violates federal law. There is no diversity exception to this rule.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tTimes spokeswoman Danielle Rhoades Ha said in a statement, \u201cThe New York Times categorically rejects the politically motivated allegations brought by the Trump administration\u2019s E.E.O.C. Our employment practices are merit-based and focused on recruiting and promoting the best talent in the world. We will defend ourselves vigorously.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tShe said that throughout the process, \u201cthe EEOC deviated from standard practices in highly unusual ways. The allegation centers on a single personnel decision for one of over 100 deputy positions across the newsroom, yet the EEOC\u2019s filing makes sweeping claims that ignore the facts to fit a predetermined narrative. Neither race nor gender played a role in this decision \u2013 we hired the most qualified candidate, and she is an excellent editor.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Equal Employment Opportunity Commission filed suit against The New York Times on Tuesday, alleging that it violated…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":207369,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[153,87155,17397,87156,9,11,10,5489],"class_list":["post-221131","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-york","tag-donald-trump","tag-eeoc","tag-electionline","tag-equal-employment-opportunity-commission","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-headlines","tag-new-york-news","tag-the-new-york-times"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/221131","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=221131"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/221131\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/207369"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=221131"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=221131"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=221131"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}