It didn’t make headlines, but Aug. 15 should be remembered as Legal Liberation Day for unionized federal workers. The U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit restored to these 1.3 million workers a right that’s been denied to them since 1978: to sue their labor union for unlawful discrimination. Thanks to this long-overdue ruling, federal unions are no longer immune from anti-discrimination laws, and federal workers now have the same right to seek justice as every other worker in America.

The case was brought by Nia Lucas, a former employee of the Small Business Administration from 2017 to 2020. A disabled veteran who had recently given birth, Nia told her union local, part of the American Federation of Government Employees, that she was discriminated against an

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