MAGA-Hat-Wearing White Postal Employee Loses Race Bias Lawsuit

The US Postal Service defeated a lawsuit by a White mail carrier who claimed discrimination, in part because he was treated differently for wearing a MAGA hat than a Black co-worker was for wearing a Black Lives Matter hat.

The ruling Thursday by the US District Court for the Western District of Kentucky partly turns on a rare application of the Hatch Act in the employment bias context. The 1939 law bars civil-service employees in the executive branch other than the president and vice president from engaging in certain types of political activity.

James Halbauer’s July 2020 suit alleged that ...