Uh, OH?
Are people of Color, Woman and others gonna be sent back to the 1960’s, to go to the streets to fight for their ‘Civil Rights”?
Cases that have already been filed would be subject to the discretion of the judge overseeing them.
A separate memo sent to Wolfe on Wednesday says the civil rights division must notify the Justice Department’s chief of staff of any consent decrees the division has finalized within the last 90 days. That directive suggests that police-reform agreements the Justice Department has negotiated with cities including Minneapolis, Louisville and Memphis could be in jeopardy.
The first memo doesn’t state how long the freeze will last, but it largely shuts down the civil rights division for at least the early weeks of the Trump administration. Harmeet K. Dhillon, a Republican lawyer and activist who is President Donald Trump’s nominee to lead the department, is awaiting Senate confirmation.
The Justice Department could not immediately be reached for comment about the memo, which was sent by Chad Mizelle, the department’s new chief of staff.
It states that officials are implementing the freeze to be “consistent with the Department’s goal of ensuring that the Federal Government speaks with one voice in its view of the law and to ensure that the President’s appointees or designees have the opportunity to decide whether to initiate any new cases.”
Within the Justice Department, the civil rights division typically experiences the sharpest shift in priorities between Republican and Democratic administrations. Department officials interviewed after the November election said they expected that change to be even more drastic between the Biden and Trump administrations….
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As a candidate in this year’s election, he [Trump] clearly signaled his intent to abandon Biden’s use of federal power to try to curb excessive police force and racial discrimination.
He said on the campaign trail that police at times must be “extraordinarily rough” to stamp out urban mayhem and endorsed more aggressive tactics from police, including the use of stop-and-frisk to search suspects….
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