Nearly a year and a half after President Biden originally nominated her, the U.S. Senate in a partisan vote confirmed plaintiffs’ lawyer Karla Gilbride to serve as the new General Counsel to the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC). The position has been filled on an acting basis since Biden’s controversial firing of former General Counsel Sharon Fast Gustafson, a Trump appointee, in March 2021 even though her term did not expire until August 2023. Ms. Gilbride’s confirmation gives Biden appointees not only majority control of the five-member commission but also control of the influential General Counsel’s office.
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