The head of the Justice Department’s Civil Rights Division said she’s happy to see hundreds of attorneys leave her jurisdiction because they’d rather practice ‘woke ideology.’
Veteran lawyers are among the hundreds who have bolted from the office over Trump’s desire to have them go after antisemitism on college campuses, The New York Times reported.
The president also wants them dealing with sanctuary cities exacerbating the country’s migrant crisis.
Harmeet K. Dhillon, who now runs the civil rights division under Trump, is telling them not to let the door hit them on the way out.
‘Now, over 100 attorneys decided that they’d rather not do what their job requires them to do, and I think that’s fine,’ Dhillon told Glenn Beck.
‘We don’t want people in the federal government who feel like it’s their pet project to go persecute police departments or persecute people praying outside abortion facilities,’ she said.
‘The job here is to enforce the federal civil rights laws, not woke ideology.’
She did admit that she will have to hire a lot of people and fast, or ‘we’re going to run out of attorneys.’
Harmeet K. Dhillon (pictured right), the head of the Justice Department’s Civil Rights Division said she’s happy to see hundreds of attorneys leave her jurisdiction because they’d rather practice’ woke ideology
Dhillon, who now runs the civil rights division under Trump, is telling them not to let the door hit them on the way out
Over 100 lawyers are expected to accept what Dhillon describes as a ‘generous severance package that pays them for several months while they do nothing.’
Dhillon also plans to stop the Biden administration’s plan to pursue cases in support of transgender prison inmates.
‘The prior administration’s arguments in transgender inmate cases were based on junk science,’ Dhillon said.
‘The prior administration’s nonsensical reading of the Americans With Disabilities Act was an affront to the very people the statute intended to protect.’
Trump announced a ‘proud new chapter’ of the Justice Department that would end the ‘weaponization’ of government in a speech in March that revisited his old wounds and allowed him to gloat.
‘We are turning the page on four long years of corruption, weaponization and surrender to violent criminals and we are restoring fair, equal and impartial justice under the law,’ Trump said, standing before the seal of the Department of Justice.
But the main point of his speech was to declare victory over his political rivals and the federal officials who tried to prosecute him.
It was yet another setting for him to repeat his complaints about the cases against him and to mock his vanquished rival, Joe Biden.
Pam Bondi swears in Harmeet Dhillon, Assistant Attorney General for Civil Rights at the U.S. Department of Justice
Veteran lawyers are among the hundreds who have bolted from the office over Trump’s desire to have them go after antisemitism on college campuses
Trump described the federal cases against him as ‘bulls***,’ admitting he was breaking a promise to wife Melania Trump in using the word.
‘I will not use a bad word. I promised my wife I would never use a bad word,’ he said before going on to use an expletive: ‘The case against me was bulls***.’
From the campaign onwards, Trump has demonstrated his interest in having control over the department and which investigations it pursues.
Trump spoke in the department’s great hall, the same stage which Merrick Garland, Joe Biden‘s attorney general, announced investigations into Trump.
The president praised the officials he appointed to top positions at Justice and blasted those who led it in the last administration as ‘bad people. Really bad people.’
‘In recent years, a corrupt group of hacks and radicals within the ranks of the American government obliterated the trust and goodwill built up over generations.’
‘But in the end the thugs failed and the truth won. Freedom, justice and democracy won and above all the American people won,’ he added.
The president used his speech to rail against his usual list of perceived wrongs against him: spying on his campaign, persecuting his family, raiding Mar-a-Lago, and doing ‘everything within their power to prevent me from becoming the president of the United States.’
He even used biblical terms, complaining that the law was used to punish the ‘innocent’ and ‘reward the wicked.’
Much of his vitriol was directed to Biden and Garland. He said of them: ‘There can be no heinous betrayal of American values than to use the law to terrorize the innocent and reward the wicked. That is what they were doing at a level that has never been seen before.’
He complained he had to take ‘tremendous abuse’ in the trials against him and then pointed to his election victory: ‘How did I do? I think I’m president.’
He has filled the Justice Department top ranks with loyalists and his own personal defense attorneys.
These include Pami Bondi, who defended him at his impeachment trial in his first term, and two of his lawyers in the porn star hush money trial that saw Trump convicted by a New York judge last year.
In one of her first directives following her confirmation, Bondi ordered DoJ officials to ‘zealously defend’ the interests of the presidency.
She escorted Trump into the department when he arrived to give his remarks. She showed him his official portrait on the wall.
More than 200 local sheriffs, law enforcement officials, staff from Capitol Hill offices, families impacted by the fentanyl epidemic and others wearing red ‘Make America Great Again’ caps gathered to hear from Trump.
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