Biden Moves to Fire EEOC Top Lawyer Who Wouldn’t Resign
- General Counsel Sharon Gustafson took office in 2019
- Republican attorney’s term would have ended in 2023
Sharon Gustafson
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President Joe Biden was to fire Sharon Gustafson, the Trump-appointed general counsel of the EEOC, at 5 p.m. Friday, according to a source with direct knowledge of the situation.
The Biden administration demanded in a March 2 email that Gustafson, the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission’s top litigator, resign, said two different sources who spoke on condition of anonymity because they weren’t authorized to discuss the matter.