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The next victim of the Supreme Court’s voting rights decision will be workers

Meet your new king. | Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images President Donald Trump’s Department of Justice released an opinion on Tuesday that, in the likely event it is embraced by a Republican-controlled federal judiciary, would make it significantly harder for plaintiffs who face employment discrimination to prevail in court. The opinion was released by the Office of Legal Counsel, an institution that interprets federal law and the Constitution for executive branch officials, and is signed by T. Elliot Gaiser, the head of that office. Gaiser is a former law clerk to Justice Samuel Alito, a...