Advocacy groups on Monday asked the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission to investigate the American Bar Association over alleged bias in a diversity clerkship hiring program.
The ABA is violating federal law by targeting applicants for the program based on race, age, and sexual orientation, the groups said in an EEOC charge of discrimination. The Wisconsin Institute for Law & Liberty and American Civil Rights Project are among the groups who filed the charge, according to a statement.
The groups are ratcheting up their challenges to the program, which places law students in temporary jobs with judges across the country, following ...