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TRUMP Handcuffs FBI & 25% Colombia Tariffs Will Hit Americans After It STOPS Flights
Ritual of a DICTATOR In The Eye of The Storm..Deeply Worrying as TRUMPs Justice Department HALTS New Civil Rights Cases
Stopping Civil Rights Cases Follows Order Putting Staff on FED DEI Programs on LEAVE as a Prelude to Shutting Programs Down and Trumps REVENGE Against Opponents
The Department of Justice has ordered its civil rights division to halt new cases, further signalling the new administrations hostility to racial and gender equality since Trumps return to power.
The Guardian 24 JAN 2025
If You are Not Scared About Fascism in the US, You Should Be now
The Department of Justice has ordered its civil rights division to halt new cases, further signalling the new administrations hostility to racial and gender equality since Donald Trumps return to power
The decision came amid a blur of frenzied activity across a range of sectors that sent out simultaneous signals of incipient purges and Trumps REVENGE against political opponents, along with a determination to act on radical campaign pledges.
The call to halt civil rights cases ? set out in an instruction to Kathleen Wolfe, the new acting head of the justice departments civil rights division ? followed an earlier order putting staff on federal diversity, equity, inclusion and accessibility programs on immediate leave as a prelude to shutting such programs down.
Activists called the move ?unprecedented? and warned that it indicated a government intention to abandon civil rights and protections against discrimination that have been enshrined in legislation since the 1950s and 1960s.
This should make Americans both angry and deeply worried, said Damon Hewitt, president and executive director of the Lawyers? Committee for Civil Rights Under Law. This is more than just a changing course of philosophy ? this is exactly what most people feared: a justice department that was created to protect civil rights literally abdicating its duty and responsibility to protect Americans from all forms of discrimination.
An executive order issued by Trump on Monday ordered the termination of all discriminatory programs, including illegal DEI and diversity, equity, inclusion, and accessibility (DEIA) mandates, policies, programs, preferences, and activities in the federal government, under whatever name they appear.
Civil rights campaigners say that, in effect, this move cancels a 1965 order issued by Lyndon Johnson to help enforce the historic Civil Rights Act of the previous year and that prohibited government contractors from discriminating in hiring or employment practices on the basis of race, color, religion, sex or national origin.
The changed approach to civil rights and equality came among a relentless barrage of policy initiatives and mass firings arising from a fusillade of executive orders issued by Trump in his opening days back in the White House that have left Washingtons political establishment in a state of shocked bewilderment.
About 160 career staff members in the White Houses national security staff were called to a meeting on Wednesday and ordered to go home. Trump staffers prepared to grill them on their loyalty to the new administration, it was reported.
Paving the way for a widespread purge, Trump signed an order called Schedule F that enables the firing of civil servants who have previously had longstanding job protections shielding them from removal by incoming administrations.
We are getting rid of all the cancer, DICTATOR Trump said as he signed the order....Trump once tweeted a quote attributed to Italian Dictator Benito Mussolini
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