The incivility of the Trump administration during his first 100 days struck a telling blow at the Justice Department’s Civil Rights Division with policies seeking to undo many of our continstitutional and measures bolstered by the Biden administration, most notably through presidential actions “Keeping Men Out of Women’s Sports” and “Eradicating Anti-Christian Bias.”
Let’s call it the “Injustice Department,” given the departure from protecting the civil and human rights of Americans, particularly those who have been traditionally marginalized and abused.
According to Stacey Young, who helms the Justice Connection and a veteran Civil Rights attorney, “The impact is catastrophic. They are scaling back, possibly, nearly all enforcement that they have been doing for decades on civil rights statutes they’re required to enforce. This is a monumental shift in the way the division operates, and it’s going to result in American civil rights not being protected as they almost always have been.”
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We couldn’t agree more with her and the need to ensure the protection of our most vulnerable citizens.
The removal of qualified leaders and the threat imposed on others have dramatically upended even certain guaranteed constitutional rights.
Since she was sworn in to lead the Justice Department, Harmeet K. Dhillon has mainly followed her boss’ dictates to do away with what they term “woke ideology.”
Basically, rather than assuring the protection of the disabled and the disenfranchised, Dhillon seems emboldened to overturn and change longstanding civil rights. In short, the California lawyer, who stood shoulder to shoulder in his wrongful assertion that the 2020 elections were stolen, is running roughshod over laws championed by Democrats. Hers is a continuation of the attack and erasure of DEI, which in reality was improving things for those abused.
She is Trump’s hit-lady, an unrepentant terminator and already we have witnessed the departure of several attorneys with others expected to leave the Justice Department.
No matter where we turn nowadays Trump is wreaking havoc and finding individuals who are willing to carry out his ignominious changes without remorse.
Yes, it is indeed an Injustice Department.