P. David Lopez, the former U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission general counsel who left the agency last week, said it is too early to know how President-elect Donald Trump will approach EEOC enforcement. But he pointed to broad political support for antidiscrimination laws as a positive sign for the commission’s existing enforcement initiatives.
“I am actually hoping that historical bipartisan commitment to addressing civil rights issues will be resurrected and continued, but we’ll just have to wait and see,” he said in an interview following Monday’s announcement that he will join the employment law firm Outten & Golden to help the firm open its first Washington office.
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