House Judiciary Committee chairman Jim Jordan (R-OH) fired off a warning shot at Federal Trade Commission chair Lina Khan, according to the New York Post: stop investigating civil rights matters.Jordan, along with Rep. Cathy McMorris Rodgers (R-WA), chairwoman of the House Committee on Energy and Co...

Wow…this is bonkers.

  • @evasive_chimpanzee
    4•1 month ago

    I’m trying to wrap my head around the logic, and I just can’t get it to connect. Are they trying to say that although the ECOA gives them the responsibility, it doesn’t give them the power? Like paying someone to mow your lawn, and then saying they aren’t allowed on your property?

    Or are they saying that the ECOA gives the FTC the power to challenge companies that discriminate by not giving credit to minorities, but not the power to challenge companies that discriminate by giving bad credit terms to minorities?

    • @Viking_Hippie
      1•1 month ago

      are they saying that the ECOA gives the FTC the power to challenge companies that discriminate by not giving credit to minorities, but not the power to challenge companies that discriminate by giving bad credit terms to minorities?

      Probably, yeah. It’s clear that they rely on their voters not paying attention to what they say and do.

      The corporations and industries they ACTUALLY work for don’t care as long as they avoid or at least delay accountability for them, after all, so they have no incentive to even TRY to make sense.