DOJ's Civil Rights Division Will Quit Before Trump Fires Them

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November 20, 2016

Daniel Greenfield

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Sounds like a plan.

Donald Trump’s decision to nominate Sen. Jeff Sessions as attorney general is being met with alarm at the Justice Department’s civil rights division and could trigger an exodus there, former officials said Friday.

Oh no! Not an exodus from the civil rights division! Who will be left to protect voter fraud, force fashion stores to hire Muslim women in hijabs and promote race riots.

"If there was a level above DEFCON One, it would be that," said Sam Bagenstos, who was the civil rights division’s No. 2 official from 2009 to 2011.

Good.

"This is a person who got his start as a public figure through prosecutions of voting rights activists for registering people to vote. The enmity the civil rights community has for him is authentically earned," said Bagenstos, now a law professor at the University of Michigan. "The career lawyers in the civil rights division now have a lot of nervousness and the Sessions nomination will make a lot of them who are on the fence about staying or going think a lot more seriously about going."

Does anyone really feel motivated to retain them? What exactly is the point of this charade? Are Sessions or Trump supposed to let this bother them? This is the equivalent of the pedophile everyone hates threatening to jump off a bridge.
All you can do is shout, "Jump!"

An attorney who served at the Justice Department under President Bill Clinton and later as a Democratic counsel on the Senate Judiciary Committee, Lisa Graves, said she was worried about Sessions' impact on the civil rights division's work investigating cases of deadly use of force by police.
"With respect to Sessions' background, I think it’s a really serious question of whether he will at all continue the Justice Department's process of examining these cases where people are shot who are unarmed and often African- American," said Graves, now with the liberal Center for Media and Democracy. "I just don’t have any confidence he'll do the right thing."

Oh the people who support the police have every confidence that Sessions will end Obama's war on police and his pro-crime policies.

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About Daniel Greenfield

Daniel Greenfield, a Shillman Journalism Fellow at the Freedom Center, is a New York writer focusing on radical Islam.