UPDATED: The New York Times filed a counterclaim to a lawsuit brought by the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, alleging that the Commission’s litigation was a retaliatory effort because of the newspaper’s reporting on the Trump administration.
In a filing in federal court in Manhattan, the Times’ legal team wrote, “The Commission filed this action only eight days after The Times published an article reporting that the EEOC is under pressure to use its scarce resources to pursue flimsy (at best) claims of alleged discrimination that ‘fit the Trump administration’s priorities,’ and a mere two days after The Times reported that
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