The Administrative Procedure Act is intended to ensure regulatory due process, but Democrats have weaponized the law to entrench Obama Administration diktats that do the opposite. Witness a judge’s order last month reinstating a payroll sweep that has left employers scrambling.

The Equal Employment Opportunity Commission has long required employers under Title VII of the Civil Rights Act to file confidential reports including the number of individuals employed by job category, sex, race and ethnicity. But liberals say the...