Posted on 06/01/2025 1:09:07 PM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum
For decades, the federal government has used data analysis to ferret out race and sex discrimination, winning court cases and reaching settlements in housing, education, policing and across American life. Now the Trump administration is working to unwind those same cases.
In recent weeks, the Justice Department backed out of an agreement with an Atlanta bank accused of systematically discouraging Black and Latino home buyers from applying for loans. The Education Department terminated an agreement with a South Dakota school district where Native American students were disciplined at higher rates than their White peers. And federal prosecutors have dropped several racial discrimination reform agreements involving state and local police departments — including that of Minneapolis, where George Floyd was murdered by an officer in 2020.
The Justice Department now is reviewing its entire docket and has already dismissed or terminated “many” cases that were “legally unsupportable” and a product of “weaponization” under the Biden administration, said Harmeet Dhillon, who heads the Justice Department’s Civil Rights Division.
“We will fully enforce civil rights laws in a way that satisfies the ends of justice, not politicization,” she said in a statement to The Washington Post.
The review includes cases and reform agreements forged after years-long investigations that the administration says lacked justification. Civil rights experts estimate that dozens of discrimination cases involving banks, landlords, private employers and school districts could face similar action.
“What we’re seeing is an attempt by the Trump administration to really dismantle a lot of the core tools that we use to ensure equality in the country,” said Amalea Smirniotopoulos, senior policy counsel and co-manager of the Equal Protection Initiative at the Legal Defense Fund, a nonprofit that has long advocated for the civil rights of Black Americans and other minorities.
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Denying a loan to an unqualified POC is “racial profiling.”
Approving a loan to an unqualified POC is “predatory lending.”
See how that works?
One wonders what the Washington comPost is not telling its audience about these changes....???
The Post does not explain that the Trump administration is apparently dropping the controversial and much-criticized notion of “disparate impact” as a basis for a finding of discrimination.
If a bank doesn’t want to lend money to someone the government should not be allowed to force them. That was Bill Clinton’s crap that led to the financial meltdown in 2007-8. The government monkeys are not smarter than the banks. Force the banks to lend and they will offset the risk on the public.
“Trump administration is apparently dropping the controversial and much-criticized notion of “disparate impact””
as they should. The Government forcing lenders to write bad paper hurts everyone.
And the government forcing schools to abandon discipline hurts everyone.
This is funny. So the Washington Post believes that the Trump Justice Department will do a better job protecting the civil rights of Blacks in Minneapolis than Tampon Tim Waltz and Mayor Jacob Frey and the Mineapolis Police Department? Or perhaps they think the deep state still runs the show there.
The DoJ is probably looking at anti white, anti male, anti Christian, and anti conservative bigotry running rampant through the Biden covid years.
“’What we’re seeing is an attempt by the Trump administration to really dismantle a lot of the core tools that we use to ensure equality in the country,’ said Amalea Smirniotopoulos, senior policy counsel and co-manager of the Equal Protection Initiative at the Legal Defense Fund, a nonprofit that has long advocated for the civil rights of Black Americans and other minorities.”
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https://www.naacpldf.org/about-us/staff/amalea-smirniotopoulos/
Amalea Smirniotopoulos is a Senior Policy Counsel and Co-Manager of LDF’s Equal Protection Initiative.
Prior to joining LDF, Amalea was the Legislative Director for Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse, where she led a team of over a dozen legislative staffers to develop and execute the Senator’s agenda. She was previously a Judiciary Counsel, advising the Senator on criminal justice, immigration, civil rights, and national security issues. Amalea began her legal career at The Bronx Defenders, where she was a Staff Attorney, Supervising Attorney, and an Associate Legal Director in the Criminal Defense Practice. She clerked for the Honorable Jack B. Weinstein in the United States District Court for the Eastern District of New York. . .
data analysis = quotas
Disparate impact... Everyone has the same behavior and credit worthiness. So, there should be no differences in criminal sanctions or economic qualifications.
“Disparate impact” actually is a direct attack on what WaPo refers to as a “core civil rights tenet” - that is, if the authors of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 were not lying about what it meant and how it would work.
This is what I voted for
Dumping these bogus cases is a good thing.
And the left blamed it on “greedy banks”.
Excellent! Winning!
Quite true. If I were Trump though, I would also put some public and private cash into alternative approaches to poverty centered on schools, neighborhoods, and families like the Harlem Children’s Zone. I would finance much of the public part of the effort by taxes on over-large university endowments.
Quotas: you summarized democrat intentions in just one word.
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