Trump Recasts Mission of Justice Dept.’s Civil Rights Office, Prompting ‘Exodus’

The New York Times ^ | April 28, 2025, 3:26 p.m. ET | Devlin Barrett

[E. Pluribus Unum]

Hundreds of lawyers and other staff members are leaving the Justice Department’s civil rights division, as veterans of the office say they have been driven out by Trump administration officials who want to drop its traditional work to aggressively pursue cases against the Ivy League, other schools and liberal cities.

The wave of departures has only accelerated in recent days, as the administration reopened its “deferred resignation program,” which would allow employees to resign but continue to be paid for a period of time. The offer, for those who work in the division, expires on Monday. More than 100 lawyers are expected to take it, on top of a raft of earlier departures, in what would amount to a decimation of the ranks of a crucial part of the Justice Department.

“Now, over 100 attorneys decided that they’d rather not do what their job requires them to do, and I think that’s fine,” Harmeet K. Dhillon, the new head of the division, said in an interview with the conservative commentator Glenn Beck over the weekend, welcoming the turnover and making plain the division’s priorities.

“We don’t want people in the federal government who feel like it’s their pet project to go persecute” police departments, she said. “The job here is to enforce the federal civil rights laws, not woke ideology.”

Traditionally the department has protected the constitutional rights of minority communities and marginalized people, often by monitoring police departments for civil rights violations, protecting the right to vote and fighting housing discrimination.

Now, more than a dozen current and former civil rights division lawyers say, the new administration appears intent on not simply modifying the direction of the work, as has been typical during changeovers from a Democratic administration to a Republican one.

The administration is instead determined, the lawyers said, to fundamentally end how the....

[Adder]

100?
Good start!

NO, SIR!

NOT TIRED OF WINNING!!

[Flavious_Maximus]

Those scumbag lawyers think resigning will be the end of it and they can now move on with their lives.

To those leftwing freaks: More pain is coming, much more. This is just the beginning opening salvo. You are going to receive the ultimate punishment. Embrace the suck coming your way. /spit

[Abathar]

The word decimate or decimated was a culling of the ranks and used by the Romans when they thought their troops failed to fight as they were trained, causing them to lose a battle. Lined up, one of every ten soldiers in line were killed on the spot in front of the rest of them to show the seriousness of the commanders.

One in ten is not that many if the term was used literally here, I hope the reporter was unaware of the correct term and it amounted to a much higher percentage that only 10%.

[FlingWingFlyer]

I wish these people would “Exodus” to somewhere else on the planet. They’ve been around the government for too long.

[Albion Wilde]

Holder turned the Civil Rights Division totally left in 2010, when its chief, J. Christian Adams, was fired for trying to investigate Black Panthers intimidating white voters, along with his usual white-on-black discrimination cases.

Former DOJ Attorney Charges Racial Motive In Justice Department Decision

[Eleutheria5]

YAY!

[broken_clock]

Great. Now we can get some real lawyers in there instead of liberals.

Lets call them what they really are, leftists. They aren’t classic liberals. Not with the Fascism ever present in all they try and do.