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DOJ Civil Rights Lawyers Ponder Future Under Potentially ‘Terrifying’ Trump Presidency
The Obama administration rebuilt the Civil Rights Division. Now lawyers there worry Trump will tear it apart
WASHINGTON ― Lawyers in the Justice Department’s Civil Rights Division ― a branch President Barack Obama rejuvenated after the Bush administration neglected many of its key duties ― are worried that President-elect Donald Trump’s administration might dismantle the work they’ve done over the past eight years.
Under Obama, the Civil Rights Division has fought Republican-backed voting restrictions, prosecuted anti-gay hate crimes for the first time, and mounted major investigations of police departments in Chicago and Ferguson, Missouri.
Trump ― who once suggested he’d instruct his attorney general to investigate the Black Lives Matter movement but has called himself “the least racist person” around ― has different priorities. He subscribes to the notion that there’s a “war on police,” has called police “the most mistreated people in America” and spoke about the need to “give power back” to law enforcement.
DOJ Civil Rights Lawyers Ponder Future Under Potentially 'Terrifying' Trump Presidency | The Huffington Post
The Obama administration rebuilt the Civil Rights Division. Now lawyers there worry Trump will tear it apart
WASHINGTON ― Lawyers in the Justice Department’s Civil Rights Division ― a branch President Barack Obama rejuvenated after the Bush administration neglected many of its key duties ― are worried that President-elect Donald Trump’s administration might dismantle the work they’ve done over the past eight years.
Under Obama, the Civil Rights Division has fought Republican-backed voting restrictions, prosecuted anti-gay hate crimes for the first time, and mounted major investigations of police departments in Chicago and Ferguson, Missouri.
Trump ― who once suggested he’d instruct his attorney general to investigate the Black Lives Matter movement but has called himself “the least racist person” around ― has different priorities. He subscribes to the notion that there’s a “war on police,” has called police “the most mistreated people in America” and spoke about the need to “give power back” to law enforcement.
DOJ Civil Rights Lawyers Ponder Future Under Potentially 'Terrifying' Trump Presidency | The Huffington Post
