Trump nominates DOJ official to EEOC seat left vacant after Democrat’s firing

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The White House announced late Monday that it has tapped Matt Zandi to fill a seat previously held by Jocelyn Samuels. | World News

President Donald Trump has nominated a Justice Department official to an open seat on a key civil rights agency, signaling his administration's determination to forge ahead with efforts to dismantle diversity policies it claims discriminate against white workers and others.

The White House announced late Monday that it has tapped Matt Zandi to fill a seat previously held by Jocelyn Samuels, one of two Democratic commissioners fired by Trump before the end of their terms in an unprecedented move to seize control of the EEOC, a bipartisan agency created by Congress through the 1964 Civil Rights Act.

Zandi currently serves as chief of staff for the Justice Department’s civil rights division, which saw the mass departure of career lawyers as it shifted to investigating employers and schools for what it considers unlawful diversity and transgender policies.

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Zandi's confirmation would further shift the balance of power at the EEOC to the right. Currently, there are two Republican commissioners — Andrea Lucas, who is the chair, and Brittany Panuccio — and one Democrat — Kalpana Kotagal, whose term expires next year.

Under Lucas, the EEOC has steadfastly enforced Trump's civil rights priorities, often in tight cooperation with the Department of Justice.

Zandi's nomination comes as the EEOC prepares for several major regulatory changes, including ending a 60-year-old requirement to collect demographic workforce data from many employers and revising rules for enforcing the Pregnant Workers Fairness Act, which Lucas has said improperly extended protections for workers seeking abortions, birth control or fertility treatments.

The Trump administration has yet to nominate anyone to fill a fifth seat, left open by the firing of Democrat Charlotte Burrows.

The impending Democratic takeover of the Senate majority in January raises the possibility that the EEOC won't have five commissioners for…

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