Sustain the President & You Protect the White Man
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Former DOJ immigration judge Tania Nemer filed suit today in a case in which the government has asserted that the President and the Attorney General have constitutional authority to discriminate against federal employees, in violation of Title VII of the Civil Rights Act. This marks a breathtaking—and deeply disturbing—development in the Federal government’s ongoing assault on career civil servants.
The complaint, filed in the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia, alleges that Tania Nemer was discriminated against on the basis of her sex, Lebanese national origin, and First Amendment protected activity. Ms. Nemer is a woman and a dual citizen of Lebanon, born to immigrant parents who came to this country to pursue the American dream. Before becoming an immigration judge, Ms. Nemer also ran as a Democratic candidate for office in Ohio.
In 2023, Ms. Nemer was hired as an immigration judge. She received the highest performance rating possible during her time at DOJ. But on February 5, 2025, Ms. Nemer was informed that she had been terminated, effective immediately. The complaint alleges that other similarly situated immigration judges who were male, were not of Lebanese national origin, and were not known to be politically active were not fired. Meanwhile, to this day, the government has failed to offer any coherent rationale for Ms. Nemer’s termination.
Ms. Nemer filed a complaint with the Equal Employment Opportunity office alleging discrimination. By law, the EEO office needed to investigate whether Ms. Nemer had been discriminated against. But that is not what the EEO office did. Instead, at the direction of the Department of Justice, the EEO office dismissed Ms. Nemer’s complaint. The EEO office’s decision concludes that the President’s removal power under Article II trump’s Title VII—the landmark civil rights law that protects against racial, religious, and sex discrimination in employment. In other words, in this case, the federal government is declaring a critical anti-discrimination statute to be unconstitutional. Left with no other recourse, Ms. Nemer brought suit in federal court to vindicate her statutory and constitutional rights against unlawful discrimination.
“I was immensely proud to serve as an immigration judge,” said Tania Nemer. “When I was terminated, my supervisor told me I was one his best employees and could not explain why I was being removed. And to this day, the government has not provided any justification for terminating me. I just want the government to comply with the law.”
Of course they have no intent to comply with Title VII. It doesn’t protect the white man.