Board of County Commissioners Fremont County Colorado v. United States Equal Employment Opportunity Commission’s Empirical Analysis

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12 federal appellate · 3 district ·

Most-quoted passages

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1. “In the floor debates on the extension of Title VII protections to state employees, Senator Ervin introduced an amendment to exempt those state employees who were chosen by elected officials or who were close personal advisors to elected officials. In the ensuing debates Senator Allen decried federal government encroachment on the powers of local government that would result. To accommodate these Tenth Amendment concerns, when Congress extended Title VII protections to state employees in 1972 it exempted high-level state employees in recognition of the federalism concerns encompassed in their inclusion. It similarly rejected coverage for congressional employees at that time.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the dissent
   e.g. Alaska v. EEOC

2. “The expansion of Title VII coverage to State and local government employment is firmly embodied in the principles of the Constitution of the United States. The Constitution has recognized that it is inimical to the democratic form of government to allow the existence of discrimination in those bureaucratic systems which most directly affect the daily interactions of this Nation’s citizens.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the dissent
   e.g. Alaska v. EEOC