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Judge Blocks Trump’s Diversity Rollback | Albany News
A federal judge has blocked the Trump administration’s latest attempt to scrap a 46-year-old diversity hiring agreement for Syracuse’s police and fire departments, ensuring efforts to reflect the city’s racial and gender diversity in law enforcement can continue. The Justice Department argued the 1980 agreement was outdated and that goals had been met, but the judge rejected that, saying the administration’s claims ignored established legal precedent. This isn’t the first time the administration tried to end the agreement — they attempted it in 2021 too. Local officials and civil rights…
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