The EEOC Whiffs--Again!

This is spring, so naturally it’s time for what is becoming a ritual wipeout at the Supreme Court for the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission. We reprised the commission’s blanking last May in “Another 9-0 Smackdown,” when the Court ruled the agency had violated pre-lawsuit conciliation rules mandated in the 1964 Civil Rights Act. Thursday’s ruling could go only 8-0, but it’s still another unanimous rebuke for the lawyers at arguably the government’s most abusive agency.

This time the target was an Iowa-based trucking...