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'Experts' really hate the DOJ Civil Rights Division
American Thinker ^ | 8 Jun, 2026 | Mike McDaniel

Posted on 06/08/2026 5:06:28 AM PDT by MtnClimber

he DOJ’s Civil Rights Division has long been an exclusive preserve of Democrats, trending toward contemporary Democrats who are also Marxists and Islamists. For decades, the CRD ignored rights that did not support Democrat policies and desires. With the second Trump Administration, the CRD’s new Second Amendment section is now suing government entities that are infringing on Americans’ Second Amendment liberties, and Democrats are apoplectic, as Jennifer Mascia at The Trace explains:

The Civil Rights Division typically fights for the disempowered by enforcing federal anti-discrimination statutes. It was created in 1957 to ensure Black voting rights and school desegregation. Gun rights “have never been a focus,” said Megan Marks, a former attorney in the division who is now deputy director and managing editor of Red Line for Civil Rights, a nonprofit initiative that tracks the politicization of civil rights enforcement under President Donald Trump. …

Ah. Enforcement of civil rights is “politicized” when a Republican administration decides to not only enforce Democrat priorities, but also other, legitimate constitutional liberties Democrats want to suppress. Of course.

The DOJ’s suits come at a time when the Trump administration has departed from more traditional civil rights issues – discrimination against marginalized groups based on race, sex, disability, and religion – by pursuing conservative policies, reshaping DEI initiatives, investigating “reverse discrimination,” and suing universities over affirmative action practices. …

Many of which are illegal, but previously ignored.

SNIP

“Experts?” Expert in what? Propaganda? Trying to obliterate the Second Amendment? Gun rights have never been under assault because Americans own a lot of guns? Apparently, “experts and veteran civil rights attorneys” live in some other country, some other reality. In this reality, gun rights are under constant assault, particularly in blue states and cities.

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1 posted on 06/08/2026 5:06:28 AM PDT by MtnClimber
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To: MtnClimber

Gun grabbers beware.


2 posted on 06/08/2026 5:07:32 AM PDT by MtnClimber (For photos of scenery, wildlife and climbing, click on my screen name for my FR home page.)
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To: MtnClimber

This is another example of something that past Republican presidents didn’t do. The article is right. The DOJ Civil Rights division has been a Leftist hotbed for decades. I remember it taking some conservative controversial positions in the early Reagan Administration but nothing since. The Bushes were very comfortable with a liberal Civil Rights division. Yet another example of Republicans presiding over a massive liberal establishment. Bush would talk conservative sometimes but 90% of the government bureaucracy continued to push radical liberalism. Finally, Trump cleaned out several divisions and the liberal establishment - laughably called “experts” - are bent out of shape about it.


3 posted on 06/08/2026 6:02:55 AM PDT by Opinionated Blowhard (When the people find that they can vote themselves money, that will herald the end of the republic.)
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To: MtnClimber

“ discrimination against marginalized groups”

The most marginalized and discriminated/against group is white, heterosexual, non Hispanic, Christian men.

There are institutionalized and system practices throughout all layers of government and industry to make things harder for them.


4 posted on 06/08/2026 6:16:54 AM PDT by TheThirdRuffian (Orange is the new brown)
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To: MtnClimber

“ discrimination against marginalized groups”

The most marginalized and discriminated/against group is white, heterosexual, non Hispanic, Christian men.

There are institutionalized and system practices throughout all layers of government and industry to make things harder for them.


5 posted on 06/08/2026 6:16:57 AM PDT by TheThirdRuffian (Orange is the new brown)
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To: MtnClimber

You know it’s a fake media narrative when “experts say” is planted somewhere in the narrative. I call it fact by expert edict. The NY Times is king of “experts say” proclamations.


6 posted on 06/08/2026 6:25:58 AM PDT by chuckee
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To: TheThirdRuffian

Unfortunately.


7 posted on 06/08/2026 6:29:16 AM PDT by No name given ( Anonymous is who you’ll know me as )
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To: TheThirdRuffian

Unfortunately.


8 posted on 06/08/2026 6:29:16 AM PDT by No name given ( Anonymous is who you’ll know me as )
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To: chuckee

“ You know it’s a fake media narrative when “experts say” is planted somewhere in the narrative”

Yep. And the fake “nonprofit initiative that tracks the politicization of civil rights enforcement”.

Rush used to call that a “name and a fax machine” or some such.

Now it’s an “name and website” but same idea. All operating out of some central office. The organization doesn’t actually exist except to provide media quotes.


9 posted on 06/08/2026 6:30:27 AM PDT by TheThirdRuffian (Orange is the new brown)
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To: Opinionated Blowhard

“We’ve never forgiven Mr. Lincoln and his d**n army of Republicans from taking away our slaves. We want them back, one way or another.”


10 posted on 06/08/2026 6:32:53 AM PDT by 17th Miss Regt (Fascist, deplorable, and proud of it!)
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To: TheThirdRuffian

Rush used to call that a “name and a fax machine” or some such. lol

The NY Times no longer even bothers with a name which they now distill into “some experts say”...without mentioning the overwhelming majority of “experts” say their one guy is full of crap.


11 posted on 06/08/2026 6:39:53 AM PDT by chuckee
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To: MtnClimber
The Civil Rights Division typically fights for the disempowered by enforc[es] federal anti-discrimination statutes.

That’s the problem right there: they shouldn’t be picking sides. By definition, that’s discrimination.

12 posted on 06/08/2026 6:51:01 AM PDT by FoxInSocks ("Hope is not a course of action." — M. O'Neal, USMC)
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To: chuckee

Oh they named “experts” — the “Red Line for Civil Rights” founded by two fired DOJ employees who oppose non-discriminatory enforcement of discrimination laws.

Enforcing the law fairly is “politicization”, according to these bigots.


13 posted on 06/08/2026 7:07:19 AM PDT by TheThirdRuffian (Orange is the new brown)
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To: chuckee

Oh they named “experts” — the “Red Line for Civil Rights” founded by two fired DOJ employees who oppose non-discriminatory enforcement of discrimination laws.

Enforcing the law fairly is “politicization”, according to these bigots.


14 posted on 06/08/2026 7:07:20 AM PDT by TheThirdRuffian (Orange is the new brown)
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To: MtnClimber

What part of “shall not be infringed” do they not understand?!


15 posted on 06/08/2026 7:20:33 AM PDT by No name given ( Anonymous is who you’ll know me as )
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To: TheThirdRuffian

How else does one overcome the white privilege “some experts”
say all white folks are afflicted with other than offsetting that privilege by saddling them with penalty points in enforcement of equal protection? Isn’t that how we have come to be a nation where George Floyd is celebrated while Daniel Penny is prosecuted.


16 posted on 06/08/2026 7:48:29 AM PDT by chuckee
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To: MtnClimber

Wouldn’t it be nice if the 10th Amendment were enforced?


17 posted on 06/08/2026 8:16:52 AM PDT by spintreebob
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To: MtnClimber
It was created in 1957 to ensure Black voting rights and school desegregation.

Blacks can now vote freely. It's time to move on from 1957.

18 posted on 06/08/2026 8:27:29 AM PDT by libertylover (The HBM (Has Been Media) is almost all AGENDA-DRIVEN and HATE-DRIVEN, not-truth driven)
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To: MtnClimber

When the left says civil rights what they mean is a racial spoils system.


19 posted on 06/08/2026 8:43:29 AM PDT by circlecity
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To: MtnClimber

The DOJ’s Civil Rights Division is another antiquated, far-leftist office which should be shut down, pronto. It has done enough damage.


20 posted on 06/08/2026 5:17:05 PM PDT by SharpRightTurn (Giving money & power to government is like giving whiskey & car keys to teenage boys. P. J. O'Rourk)
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