The Law Is The Law - Unless It Involves Age Discrimination

The FBI is settling a Privacy Act lawsuit filed by notorious former FBI agents Peter Strzok and Lisa Page because 'the law is the law.' But the law is an illusion when it comes to age discrimination.

The U.S. Supreme Court liberally interpreted a provision of the Age Discrimination in Employment Act of 1967 (ADEA) in a landmark 2020 decision, Babb v Willkie, 140 S. Ct. 1168 (2020).

This decision is the law. Except that it isn’t. Federal courts completely ignore it.

Meanwhile, the average age of federal judges was 69 in 2020, the last year for which…