Trump EPA Expected To Narrow Title VI To ‘Intentional’ Discrimination

Industry lawyers and other practitioners expect the incoming Trump EPA to seek to narrow its interpretation of Title VI of the Civil Rights Act to acts of “intentional” discrimination, upending the agency’s longstanding struggle to use the rights law to address “disparate impacts” on overburdened minority communities. “I think the incoming administration is likely to interpret Title VI as [addressing only] intentional discrimination and have much less of an emphasis on disparate impacts,” Julius Redd, an attorney at Beveridge &...