Posted on 06/08/2018 1:40:03 PM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer
For the first time in 34 years, attorney Diana Flynn is starting a new job. Until recently, Flynn served as a senior official in the Department of Justice (DOJ), where her duties included leading the Civil Rights Division's appellate and Supreme Court litigation efforts. She resigned, however, after the DOJ pursued what she characterized as rollbacks of LGBTQ and other civil rights.
“I really expected I would spend the rest of my career in the Civil Rights Division,” Flynn told NBC News, but said she finally decided she could not “under these circumstances.”
Flynn recently started a new position as litigation director for LGBTQ civil rights organization Lambda Legal, where she will be principally responsible for running the litigation program and overseeing the lawyers that do the casework.
Flynn is not the only senior official to leave the DOJ for Lambda Legal. She joins her former DOJ colleague Sharon McGowan, who left in February 2017 to become Lambda Legal’s chief strategy officer.
Flynn’s new colleagues at Lambda Legal welcomed her arrival.
“While the Department of Justice under Jeff Sessions has gone from enforcing civil rights to attacking them, we proudly welcome yet another DOJ exile to the fight for full equality for all LGBTQ people and everyone living with HIV,” Lambda Legal CEO Rachel B. Tiven said in a statement.
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Onoz! One less liberal near the courtroom! Whatever will we do? Oh wait....
The DOJ is a joke. A pathetic and loathsome joke.
We know the quota based incompetents that caused it.
The DOG “exile” can go and find and keep kissing the presidential *ss that selected and catered to these ill-educated and totally unqualified losers. Suck an egg, loser.
“She” is a transgender he.
Excellent...Good riddance.
These “people” don’t want civil/equal rights, they want special rights that deny the civil rights of others.
NBC = Nothing But Counterfeit; Nothing But Crap
Can we limit posting this kind of b/s from a known Lying Leftist outlet? What good does it do other than demoralize the readers? Some have said if they didn’t know any better they would think FR was a Leftist site what with all the pro-Lying Left headlines streaming across. If this story is true and has some redeeming value, at least get the story from a reasonably reliable source, not from a known Lying Leftist operative posing as a “news” organization.
More winning.
UNCONSTITUTIONAL FEDERAL TYRANNY is ‘under assault’ at Justice Department.
More winning.
I remember hearing from attorney friends in the Justice Department even back in the early Clinton years how screwed up the Civil Rights Division was. They were looked down by the rest of the Justice Department attorneys as being left-wing ideologues.
That's a man, baby!!
Idiot! She has no problem with property confiscation, spying on private citizens, perjury traps, and other obvious abuses of civil rights under Obama, but take away her LGBT perks and now she has concerns.
He puts the "tranny" in "tyranny."
You have to know the enemy to fight it.
And besides, it is more winning!
Old,worn out,diseased
Flynn’s record on civil rights spans decades. On her watch, the Appellate Section of the DOJ’s Civil Rights Division filed some 2,500 briefs in federal courts, with a success rate of more than 80 percent. She also spearheaded the Civil Rights Division’s work to render the Defense of Marriage Act (DOMA) unconstitutional.
Flynn also led the Civil Rights Division’s efforts on the brief for Obergefell v. Hodges, the Supreme Court case that established same-sex marriage nationwide — work for which she received the Attorney General’s Distinguished Service Award. In 2017, the American Bar Association Commission on Sexual Orientation and Gender Identity honored Flynn with the Stonewall Award for her work promoting LGBTQ legal causes. She characterized these accomplishments as “all team efforts.”
Can we say blatant conflict of interest?
“While the Department of Justice under Jeff Sessions has gone from enforcing civil rights to attacking them...”
The only civil rights Sessions is attacking are those of us law abiding citizens who are begging for action on the political criminals in the Okefenokee on the Potomac.
No. We need intel on the enemy.
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