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Mike Johnson: “Disparate impacts are not proof of discrimination. Indeed, they are statistically inevitable.”

On the recordSeptember 9, 2019
Disparate impacts are not proof of discrimination. Indeed, they are statistically inevitable.
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Mike Johnson
Republican · Louisiana

Editor's note · Context

Johnson states that different outcomes do not necessarily indicate discrimination.

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