US EditionRoughly 70% of Justice Department’s Civil Rights Division expected to accept resignation offer
- Seven Democratic senators wrote to the Justice Department on Friday requesting details about personnel changes in the Civil Rights Division.
- These changes, initiated since President Donald Trump returned to office in January, involved reassigning several senior career attorneys from leadership roles within the division.
- The division, founded in 1957 to protect voting rights, has shifted focus under Assistant Attorney General Harmeet Dhillon toward issues like anti-Christian bias, antisemitism, and reversing previous policies on transgender rights.
- Dhillon reported over 100 attorneys accepted a resignation offer allowing payment through September, with about 70% of the roughly 340 staff expected to resign in this ongoing mass exodus.
- This exodus reflects a transformation of the division to prioritize Trump administration goals, signaling a significant shift in civil rights enforcement agendas and potential impacts on federal anti-discrimination efforts.
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Roughly 70% of Justice Department’s Civil Rights Division expected to accept resignation offer
Approximately 70% of the Justice Department’s Civil Rights Division is expected to accept a second offer to federal workers that allows them to resign from their positions and be paid through September, according to a source familiar with the situation.
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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,” whi…
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Panic Ensues After Trump Admin Takes Wrecking Ball to DOJ’s Woke Civil Rights Division - News Addicts
Harmeet Dhillon – Trump’s hand-picked choice to lead the DOJ’s Civil Rights Division, has been taking a wrecking ball to the woke government entity – forcing out ‘a majority of career managers and implementing new priorities’ that have radically altered its mandate, NBC News’ swamp scribe Ken Dilanian reports. “It’s been a complete bloodbath,” one […] The post Panic Ensues After Trump Admin Takes Wrecking Ball to DOJ’s Woke Civil Rights Division…
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