President Donald Trump’s pick to run the agency that oversees federal workers’ labor rights founded and ran a student newspaper that belittled and disparaged Black, LGBTQ+, Jewish groups and individuals, among others.
Charlton Allen, who Trump nominated to be general counsel at the Federal Labor Relations Authority, appeared before the Senate Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs for his confirmation hearing Wednesday, alongside a dozen other nominees.
In 1993, while in law school at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, Allen founded the Carolina Review as a conservative campus newspaper. His leadership and writing at the paper have raised concerns from federal employee groups whose labor disputes he would adjudicate.