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This types of lawsuits are NOT common. This is an extremely political prosecution by the DOJ. They know what they’re doing.

Let’s not normalize this as common occurrence.

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There are literally 1902 results for "discriminating" on the DOJ's press release search page, and they only go back as far as 2009. That's also for the ones they chose to publicize. I appreciate that you think this is unnecessary - I do too - but the facts don't bear in your favor.

That's not my argument though. A precise targetted case like this is rare. It is entirely political, has no bearing in rationality.

The word "discrimination" also appears on this page 22 times: https://www.dol.gov/newsroom/releases/ofccp . This is only a precisely targeted case if we ignore all other cases like it, of which there are many.

Except that in this case we have a reason to discriminate against asylum seekers: ITAR and highly sensitive military tech.

There is absolutely zero reason to sue SpaceX except for political hitpoints.

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