The Department of Justice will remain laser-focused on combating actions it believes violate civil rights laws, including initiatives promoting diversity, equity and inclusion.
That plan includes using subpoenas, prosecutions or revocation of federal funding, DOJ Assistant Attorney General Harmeet Dhillon said in a civil rights and DEI-focused Senate Judiciary Committee hearing Wednesday.
“The goal is clear — either DEI will end on its own, or we will kill it,” Dhillon told lawmakers, arguing that DEI, by pushing for equity-based outcomes rather than individual rights and opportunity, is “a form of group justice that is a Marxist concept” and equates to “invidious racial discrimination.”
Under the second Trump administration, the 368 attorneys have left the DOJ’s Civil Rights Division, which enforces federal statutes protecting Americans’ constitutional right to nondiscrimination on the basis of race, sex, class or religion.
But despite widespread agency cuts, the DOJ, Department of Education, Department of Homeland Security and other agencies have remained busy enforcing President Donald Trump’s civil rights agenda.
During Trump’s first six months in office, the administration has cut nearly all DEI-based federal contracts, frozen federal funding for higher education institutions that enable antisemitism or promote “woke” initiatives, redirected DEI-related funding for Smithsonian museums, and taken actions to ban transgender-identifying men from competing in women’s sports.
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Author: Ray Hilbrich
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