When President Lyndon Johnson signed the Civil Rights Act of 1964, establishing the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, he spoke of the “unending search for justice.” Decades later, the agency is weaponizing obscure rules, ignoring common sense, and withholding critical information from the public. An unbelievable case out of California demonstrates why a course correction is urgently needed.

In 2017, Aaron Steed and his company, Meathead Movers, was hit with a $15 million fine from the EEOC on a flimsy claim of “age discrimination.” When Steed dared to speak out about this, the federal government tried to silence him with a gag order — threatening legal consequences if he told the public his side of the story.

Meathead Movers, founded in 1997 as a small, family-run business, is now California’s largest independently owned moving company, employing more than 300 people. The company is built on a culture of personal responsibility and excellence, symbolized by its signature practice of having employees jog........

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