Posted on 01/22/2025 8:54:34 PM PST by fluorescence
The Justice Department has ordered the civil rights division to halt much of its investigative activity dating from the Biden administration and not pursue new indictments, cases or settlements, according to a memo sent to the temporary head of the division that was obtained by The Washington Post.
The letter instructs Kathleen Wolfe — designated by the Trump administration as supervisor of the division — to ensure that civil rights attorneys do not file “any new complaints, motions to intervene, agreed-upon remands, amicus briefs, or statements of interest.”
Cases that have already been filed would be subject to the discretion of the judge overseeing them.
A separate memo sent to Wolfe on Wednesday says the civil rights division must notify the Justice Department’s chief of staff of any consent decrees the division has finalized within the last 90 days. That directive suggests that police-reform agreements the Justice Department has negotiated with cities including Minneapolis, Louisville and Memphis could be in jeopardy.
The first memo doesn’t state how long the freeze will last, but it largely shuts down the civil rights division for at least the early weeks of the Trump administration. Harmeet K. Dhillon, a Republican lawyer and activist who is President Donald Trump’s nominee to lead the department, is awaiting Senate confirmation.
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“It’s beyond unusual — it’s unprecedented. We’ve never seen this before at this scale with any transfer of power, regardless of the ideology of any incoming president or administration,” said Damon Hewitt, president and executive director of the Lawyers’ Committee for Civil Rights Under Law. “This should make Americans both angry and deeply worried. This is more than just a changing course of philosophy — this is exactly what most people [in the civil rights community] feared: a Justice Department that was created to protect
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The Civil Rights division is going after whitey and Republicans. Its warped and run by bigots. In a just division, they would have teams in CA for example arresting people over vote fraud from the last election for democraps.
The idea is to keep the holdovers from causing problems until Harmeet gets there.
Trump understands these freaks now from the first go round.
“It’s beyond unusual — it’s unprecedented. We’ve never seen this before at this scale with any transfer of power, regardless of the ideology of any incoming president or administration,” said Damon Hewitt
The President is the head of the DOJ. It’s literally his job to direct their activities in the direction he thinks is best.
Unprecedented bump!
If only they really cared about civil rights for everyone. That being said. Don’t we have a DOJ already? Why this extra department? Get rid of it!
LOL, thanks boss!
Leo Turrell is going to be one of Harmeet’s lieutenants in the Civil Rights division.
Long overdue. BUMP!!!
““It’s beyond unusual — it’s unprecedented. We’ve never seen this before at this scale with any transfer of power, regardless of the ideology of any incoming president or administration,” said Damon Hewitt, president and executive director of the Lawyers’ Committee for Civil Rights Under Law. “This should make Americans both angry and deeply worried. This is more than just a changing course of philosophy — this is exactly what most people [in the civil rights community] feared: a Justice Department that was created. . .”
Hewitt has the Justice Department confused with its Civil Rights Division, which was created under Eisenhower’s AG William Rogers and quickly diverted to lawfare under Attorneys General Robert Kennedy, Nicholas Katzenbach, and Ramsey Clark.
In 2010, Damon Hewitt was listed as an “ally” of the Center for Constitutional Rights (CCR), notorious for representing terrorist groups (https://keywiki.org/Center_for_Constitutional_Rights). He spoke at the CCR Social Justice Conference 2012 (https://ccrjustice.org/home/get-involved/events/ccr-social-justice-conference-2012-principles-and-approaches-community).
This guy saw the handwriting on the wall and left.
https://www.npr.org/2010/07/13/128490853/former-doj-lawyer-alleges-racial-bias-resigns
enemies are imbedded in these agencies and this is a way to neuter them until a new sheriff comes to town
BASED!
Why does a subdivision head like civil rights need Senate confirmation? seems excessive
If the “Lawyers Committee” is upset than Americans should be happy. The LC, as Michael Savage has noted, was a creation of the American Communist Party 7 decades ago.
Well, how about until Harmeet is confirmed. But of course reading comprehension isn't a concept.
In a day of unprecedented evil, we need unprecedented action.
In a just division, they would have teams in CA for example arresting people over vote fraud from the last election for democraps
You're saying the election that returned Trump to the White House with GOP control of the House and Senate was fraudulent?? And no, Trump didn't win California, but then he was never going to win a state where Democrats outnumber Republicans 2:1.
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