Trump Trashes Carter's Infamous Luevano Decree

Now, a legitimate federal civil service hiring exam can finally be reinstituted.

Perhaps the most egregious action of the Carter Administration was deep-sixing the federal civil service hiring exam in January 1981 by surrendering to friendly plaintiffs in the Luevano discrimination case by declaring that the 7 year old, highly scientific PACE test was fatally biased against blacks and Latinos, and the incoming Reagan Administration could no doubt concoct a predictively valid test on which the Carter Administration’s favored minorities would perform just as well as whites and Asians.

Not surprisingly, the Reagan Administration failed to do so, as did the Clinton, Obama, and Biden Administrations, along with everybody else.

Finally, after 44 years of anti-competence mischief, the Trump Administration has cut the Gordian knot by junking the Luevano consent decree last week:

“For over four decades, this decree has hampered the federal government from hiring the top talent of our nation,” said Assistant Attorney General Harmeet K. Dhillon of the Civil Rights Division. “Today, the Justice Department removed that barrier and reopened federal employment opportunities based on merit—not race.”

Hopefully, the Trump Administration will rebuild a state of the art exam for hiring civil servants.

So far, practically nobody in the mainstream media has yet reported on the epochal overthrow of the Luevano consent decree, including, the Washington Post, which you might think would be closely following civil service exam issues.

But it’s hard to explain the whole story without sounding deplorably racist. The world “Luevano” hasn’t appeared in the Washington Post in years, but I did find this article from 1979:

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