Resignations at the DOJ
3rd May 2025
The New Neo.
The civil rights division of the DOJ has been undergoing changes under Trump and Harmeet Dhillon (assistant AG for civil rights at the DOJ), and the left hasn’t been happy (the article is from a few days after Trump’s inauguration):
Justin Levitt, deputy assistant attorney general in the Civil Rights Division under Obama, expressed concern over Dhillon’s nomination, saying most of her casework has focused on “cultural grievance issues.”
Interesting way to trivialize it. More:
He argued that Dhillon largely hasn’t focused on the traditional mission of the Civil Rights Division, which was established by the passage of the 1957 Civil Rights Act, which bars discrimination against all people in the United States, with a focus on vulnerable groups.
See that shift? The Act bars discrimination against all people in the US. But it’s the left that gets to define what “vulnerable groups” are and therefore which ones deserve defending, and by their definition it’s not Christians or white people or women in sports.