> Wait, what? How is that even legal? IANAL, and my info may be out of date. My understanding is that political ideology isn't a protected group at the nation

> Wait, what? How is that even legal? IANAL, and my info may be out of date. My understanding is that political ideology isn't a protected group at the national level here in America. Although states/cities can write their own laws that effectively add to the list. It's not a protected group in Washington state either, I believe, but it is a protected class in Seattle: https://www.seattle.gov/civilrights/civil-rights#whatisaprotectedclass https://www.seattle.gov/civilrights/civil-rights#whatisaprot... . Microsoft does have some presence in Seattle (Microsoft Store, Microsoft Reactor?) so I could see some of their lawyers being made quite nervous by even the hint of discrimination by politics, even where ostensibly legal.