WASHINGTON—On Aug. 1, a U.S. District Court judge in Washington dismissed a 44-year-old consent decree that had curbed civil service testing.
Judge Reggie Walton’s dismissal came half a year after the Office of Personnel Management (OPM) first sought to end the decree. They argued in Angelo Luevano v. Charles Ezell that it was racially discriminatory and that it kept them from assessing job applicants effectively.
Charles Ezell was the acting OPM director at the time the case was filed.
Assistant Attorney General Harmeet Dhillon, who helped end the decree, said the dismissal “reopened federal employment opportunities based on merit—not race.”…
End of Racial Consent Decree Poised to Change Federal Hiring
