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you should hire people who are worse candidates because.... they're disadvantaged!

Not saying that, but some of those reasons for passing on a candidate are straight-up illegal.

Illegal if you do it explicitly. Legal if you do it by proxy criteria and plausible deniability.

Eh I wouldn't call that legal but rather a good coverup.

Schrödinger’s cat. It’s not illegal till the court looks at your situation and says it is. Companies do plausibly illegal things all day long.