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Civil rights activists raise alarm over Trump's DOJ pick
CNN ^ | 7/1/2017

Posted on 07/04/2017 3:03:11 AM PDT by Altura Ct.

Civil rights and LGBT activists say they are concerned about President Donald Trump's nomination Thursday of Eric Dreiband to head the Justice Department's civil rights division because of his work defending major corporations and others against discrimination lawsuits. Dreiband, a labor attorney in Washington, D.C., who served as general counsel of the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission under George W. Bush, has represented such companies as R.J. Reynolds Tobacco Co. in an age discrimination case, Bloomberg in a pregnancy discrimination lawsuit, CVS Pharmacy in an employee severance agreement lawsuit brought by the EEOC, and Abercrombie & Fitch in a Supreme Court case involving a Muslim woman who was not hired by the company because she wore a headscarf.

Eric Dreiband.

The nomination of Dreiband, an attorney with Jones Day whose partners included White House Counsel Donald McGahn, serves to undermine " fundamental civil rights priorities," the NAACP Legal Defense Fund said in a statement Thursday.

"Dreiband has devoted most of his career to defending corporations in employment discrimination cases and advocating for weaker antidiscrimination protections in the workplace," the statement said. "He also has a troubling lack of experience, having done no significant work in other issue areas central to the Division's mission, including urgent priorities like voting rights and policing reform."

Trump WH declines to recognize LGBT Pride Month Vanita Gupta, who led the department's civil rights division under President Barack Obama and now heads the Leadership Conference on Civil and Human Rights, said in a statement: "Whoever leads the 'crown jewel' of the Justice Department must have deep relationships with stakeholders and marginalized communities, and have a deep, abiding faith in our nation's civil rights laws. They must respect the laws that touch everyone, rights that people have literally died for...

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Civil rights activists raise alarm over Trump's DOJ pick

You say that like it is a bad thing?

Let's hope there is a push to dismantle subversive groups such as the Black & Hispanic Caucuses or LaRaza & NAACP & SPLC et al.

1 posted on 07/04/2017 3:03:11 AM PDT by Altura Ct.
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Sounds like the best possible pick to me!


2 posted on 07/04/2017 3:41:32 AM PDT by b4its2late (A Liberal is a person who will give away everything he doesn't own.)
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To: Altura Ct.

A great indicator that the pick is outstanding.


3 posted on 07/04/2017 3:41:58 AM PDT by SoFloFreeper
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To: Altura Ct.

Fire RosenKrantz and Mueller for collusion with Comey.


4 posted on 07/04/2017 3:49:41 AM PDT by Paladin2 (No spelchk nor wrong word auto substition on mobile dev. Please be intelligent and deal with it....)
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Civil Rights (gag) activists alarmed?

That sure made my day.


5 posted on 07/04/2017 4:02:12 AM PDT by Liz
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>>Vanita Gupta, who led the department's civil rights division under President Barack Obama and now heads the Leadership Conference on Civil and Human Rights

Let's review how that "Human" part works, reproductively:

XX + XX = FAIL

XY + XY = FAIL

XX + XY = Human

 

 

6 posted on 07/04/2017 4:08:19 AM PDT by HLPhat (It takes a Republic TO SECURE THESE RIGHTS - not a populist Tyranny of the Majority)
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Liberals control the narrative and thus the view ordinary people have by controlling the language. Affirmative action is now civil rights.


7 posted on 07/04/2017 4:10:23 AM PDT by Gen.Blather
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More winning.


8 posted on 07/04/2017 4:20:06 AM PDT by ilovesarah2012
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This is where the rubber meets the road.

Mr. Dreiband needs to be defended to the hilt. Stop giving the Alinsky left permission to control the narrative!

All you wet-noodle Republicans can chime in any time you want.


9 posted on 07/04/2017 4:43:37 AM PDT by MichaelCorleone (Jesus Christ is not a religion. He's the Truth.)
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Civil rights activists raise alarm over Trump's DOJ pick.

Of course they do!!! These lunatic "activist groups" raise the alarms over Trump drawing breath!

10 posted on 07/04/2017 4:50:35 AM PDT by SkiKnee
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"Civil Rights (gag) activists alarmed?"

He must think that White people have civil rights too.

11 posted on 07/04/2017 4:54:00 AM PDT by blam
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To: ilovesarah2012

Yep. Winning!


12 posted on 07/04/2017 5:02:29 AM PDT by smileyface (Things looking up in RED PA! I love President Trump!)
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White people have civil rights, too........who knew?......


13 posted on 07/04/2017 5:04:39 AM PDT by Liz
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They should all go fornication themselves. I have had it with these damn whinning crybabies. Go to Iraq or Syria and fight for civil rights. We straightened things out here a long time ago and don’t need their carping racialist bull crap anymore!! PC idiots.


14 posted on 07/04/2017 5:15:51 AM PDT by ZULU (DUMP THAT POS PAUL RYAN!! KIM FATTY the THIRD = Kim Jung Un)
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I know, right?

Who’d of thunk it?

Whites have civil rights too!


15 posted on 07/04/2017 5:18:18 AM PDT by Altura Ct.
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DJT is upsetting the right people.


16 posted on 07/04/2017 5:18:50 AM PDT by arthurus
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Marginalized communities are marginalized for the simple reason, they are at best marginal


17 posted on 07/04/2017 5:20:33 AM PDT by bert (K.E.; N.P.; GOPc;WASP .... The Fourth Estate is the Fifth Column)
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Shocker.


18 posted on 07/04/2017 5:31:54 AM PDT by Liz
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To: Altura Ct.

19 posted on 07/04/2017 6:19:00 AM PDT by eaglestar
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To: Altura Ct.

IMHO this reaction proves, again, without a doubt, achieve their objectives, both public and private, through the imposition of illegal orders imposed by unelected bureaucrats.

Why else make such a loud public stink over this appointment?

If he argued the conservative responses he is already familiar with potential counter arguments.


20 posted on 07/04/2017 6:35:26 AM PDT by Nip (BOHEICA and TANSTAAFL - both seem very appropriate today.)
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