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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Why can’t the civil rights division of the Justice Department simply be dismantled? It has far outlived its usefulness, if it ever had any.
If the lefties are against Trumps selection I highly recommend that person be confirmed. The person must be the right one for the job if the leftist mindless dick heads oppose the confirmation.
Anti-American lawyers are upset, too bad.
If CNN, LGBT and the rest of the libs are alarmed, then he’s the perfect pick.
Al Shakedown Sharpton and homofascists most upset.
These so-called civil rights activists didn’t mind Obama’s weaponized use of the IRS against conservative groups.
Civil rights of peaceful assembly and general protection from armed assault need protection by the Feds when cities on the West coast refuse to intervene and prosecute black masked terrorists assaulting Trump supporters with pepper spray, bricks, and bicycle locks.
Another win...liberals are upset...I’m so happy...these liberals are so immature..
>>Let’s hope there is a push to dismantle subversive groups such as the Black & Hispanic Caucuses or LaRaza & NAACP & SPLC et al.
The leaders of every one of these subversive organizations should be indicted under the RICO statutes. They’re all criminals and traitors.
Brain-dead hypocrites.
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