🚨Asst. AG @HarmeetKDhillon is shaking up the DOJ’s civil rights division, and is ending a lot of what conservatives have seen as egregious selective justice.
Her division covers everything from race-based discrimination to Title IX to enforcing certain voting rights acts.
She’s also taking action on gender transition procedures and medical mandates that violate religious freedom.
🧵Here’s what she told me.
After @HarmeetKDhillon sent out memos to each of the 11 sections of the Civil Rights Division (about 600 people, including 400+ attorneys) clarifying what the priorities are going to be under the new administration, HALF of the staff have chosen to go on unpaid leave.
It “triggered quite a few people in the department who have spent some of their careers doing certain agendas to say: ‘I don't want to work here anymore, because I don't want to do that. I wanted to do what I was doing in the last four years.’
That's not how it works. The Department of Justice is part of the executive branch. It's under the President, and so the President gets to set the agenda.
And so as long as we're hewing to what the statutory basis is that I've been assigned to do by Congress, it's fair for us to change our priorities.”
The DOJ is investigating jurisdictions that consider the race of the offender in sentencing and plea deals, @HarmeetKDhillon says.
“The United States Constitution bars that. Equal Protection Clause bars that…And the U.S. Supreme Court has repeatedly ruled that there are almost no instances in which it is appropriate to use race in government outcomes at all.”
She’s opened an investigation into Hennepin County for “illegal race-based discrimination."
"We have heard very troubling incidents of very lenient-on-crime plea agreements that appear to be racially motivated. And what I've also heard is that this sub rosa policy is happening in other jurisdictions as well.
…There are some dark episodes in our country, and that's what occasioned the civil rights movement. But turning that around on the other side doesn't correct the sins of the past. It simply perpetuates these wrongs against different people who don't deserve that.”
.@SenRonJohnson: "When @RobertKennedyJr called me up as he was contemplating making this move…[which] has cost him dearly, personally…my first comment was: 'Bobby, this is an answer to my prayers.'
Not only because he'll be given the chance to focus on what he's been championing now for decades, children's health, chronic illness, but I think even more importantly, for our nation, he is setting an example for how you set your political differences aside and focus on an area of agreement to tackle a difficult problem and demonstrate to America, this is exactly how you heal and unify a horribly divided nation."
I'm at the @RescueRepublic event in Washington DC today talking to folks about the event and what they're advocating for.
@SenRonJohnson @RobertKennedyJr Family physician @drcraigwax: "Everyone must have the right to informed consent, and informed consent means knowing the benefits, the risks, and the alternatives.
All of those disappeared in the last four years."
@SenRonJohnson @RobertKennedyJr @drcraigwax "We're here to fight for parents. We need parents who know and understand that they have the fundamental right to direct the upbringing of their children."
@4TiffanyJustice, co-founder of @Moms4Liberty, at the @RescueRepublic event in DC
I never thought we'd ever find an actual survivor of the Chinese regime's horrific practice of forced organ harvesting from prisoners of conscience, which amounts to a billion-dollar industry in China.
But here he is, in front of me, Mr. Cheng Peiming.
Here's a 🔴livestream of the @ETAC_Global press event, "First-Known Survivor of Forced Organ Harvesting Speaks Out", happening right in in Washington DC, w/ survivor Cheng Peiming, former head of @StateDRL Robert Destro who brought him to the US & others👇
With so many media have picked up Cheng Peiming's story, it's a massive breakthrough in telling the China forced organ harvesting story. I say this having followed it closely since 2006. I'm going to drop the ones I found in this 🧵starting w/ @Telegraph👇
A year ago, @MikeBenzCyber blew my mind when he explained the "foreign/domestic switcheroo" he describes in his definitive interview with @TuckerCarlson.
Check out PART 1: The West’s Burgeoning Censorship Industry & the Gov’t Funds Pouring In. Mike digs deep. Highly recommended!
I'll post PART 2 of last year's @MikeBenzCyber interview soon, below.
In the meantime, check out another mind-blowing deep dive, this with @Jacob__Siegel, Part 1: ‘Disinformation’ Warfare: A New Weapon of Mass Destruction, on our own platform @EpochTV👇 theepochtimes.com/epochtv/jacob-…
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