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Congress is pushing forward with a data regulation bill that would trap Americans in a hidden tangle of quotas inside private software, says Stewart Baker, an influential lawyer in Washington, DC.
“It is a remarkably ambitious effort to smuggle quotas into places in American life where they’ve never been, to overrule Harvard decision, and make it almost impossible to undo,” Baker told Breitbart News. The provision could be adopted without scrutiny in a matter of weeks; that’s because it is packaged as part of a bipartisan bill setting federal privacy standards — something that has been out of reach in Washington for decades. And it looks as though the bill breaks the deadlock by giving Republicans some of the federal preemption their business allies want while it gives Democrats and left-wing advocacy groups a provision that will quietly overrule.
Conservatives and moderates will oppose the hidden quotas, but will face a tough legal battle if the bill becomes law, he said: Business has been on board with quotas since the 1970s. As long as they are guaranteed that they won’t be sued, that’s all they ask for — “Tell us how many of any particular class you want us to hire, and we’ll just hire them as long as we’re promised that no one will call us racist, and no one will sue us.” The law provides an assurance that is what is going to happen
Retiring Republican Rep. McMorris Rodgers “is all over this,” said Baker. “It’s on her website, she’s in love with it.”
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