Former EEOC commissioner Jocelyn Samuels was Trump's pick to fill a Democratic seat in 2020. She was fired at the start of his new administration in what she calls an attempt to eviscerate the ...

Jocelyn Samuels was Trump's pick in 2020 to fill a Democratic seat on the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission. She was fired in January, accused of embracing "radical" ideology.

Virtual view of Jocelyn Samuels, then vice chair of the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, speaking at SHRM's Employment Law and Compliance Conference on Feb. 28, 2023, in Washington, D.C.

Shortly after 10:30 p.m. on the evening of January 27, Jocelyn Samuels received an email from an official in the White House’s Office of Presidential Personnel, informing her that, “as of this ...

In firing Jocelyn Samuels, Trump “undermined the EEOC’s historic independence and interfered with its statutorily mandated duties to protect workers from discrimination,” per the lawsuit.