Over 100 attorneys have left the Justice Department’s Civil Rights Division—not because they’re soft, but because Trump’s DOJ has flipped the script on civil rights.
The division was created after the Civil Rights Act of 1964 to fight racism, protect voting rights, and confront police abuse.
But under Trump’s handpicked appointee, Harmeet Dhillon, the division’s new priorities shifted to targeting transgender athletes, focusing on antisemitism, and dismantling diversity programs. Those who left said they refused to help dismantle the very laws they swore to uphold.
Dhillon shrugged off the walkout, saying:
“I don’t want people in the federal government who feel like it’s their pet project to go persecute police departments based on statistical evidence or persecute people praying outside abortion facilities instead of doing violence. That’s not the job here. The job here is to enforce the federal civil rights laws, not woke ideology.”
With staff down from 380 to possibly 140, the question remains: Who will enforce civil rights now?
Click play to listen to the report from AURN White House Correspondent Ebony McMorris. For more news, follow @E_N_McMorris & @aurnonline.
