In times of emergency, many legal strictures can flex. For example, to enable hospitals to respond to Covid-19, the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) recently waived a swath of federal regulatory requirements. But though officials’ emergency powers are extensive, the ability to discard antidiscrimination protec-tions is not among them. A hall-mark of our legal system is that our commitment to prohibiting invidious discrimination remains steadfast even in times of emer-gency.