Thread by @ChadMizelle47

The Department of Justice is dismissing Biden-era consent decrees in North Carolina, Georgia, Maryland, and Indiana for imposing DEI hiring requirements on fire and police departments.

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As Justice Clarence Thomas noted:

Raced-based decision-making “yields a quota- and caste-ridden society steeped in race-based discrimination.”

DOJ will not allow this to happen.

Hiring our Nation’s first responders and law enforcement officers must be based on MERIT.

Safety has to come before DEI.

These proposed consent decrees sought to penalize fire and police departments for using race-neutral hiring tools. There was NO evidence that the departments engaged in intentional discrimination.

For example, some of these cases involved written tests that required only a 70% score to pass and involved subjects such as reading comprehension and report-writing skills.

Despite a total lack of evidence of intentional discrimination, these cases accused those departments of discrimination based on alleged statistical disparities. As a result, the Biden-era DOJ sought to force fire and police departments to engage in DEI hiring, to pay millions of dollars in taxpayer money to applicants who had not been hired, and to stop hiring on merit.

One of the cases would have required the Maryland State Police to hire minority applicants with “retroactive seniority,” thus requiring it to treat brand-new police officers as if they had years of experience that they did not actually have.

These cases were inconsistent with @POTUS’s and @AGPamBondi’s efforts to end illegal DEI preferences and to restore merit-based hiring. That was reason enough to dismiss them.

As Justice Thomas has explained: “Rudderless, race-based preferences designed to ensure a particular racial mix in the entering classes” of a fire or police department “fly in the face of our colorblind Constitution and our Nation’s equality ideal. In short, they are plainly—and boldly—unconstitutional.”

Crucially, these cases were also inconsistent with @POTUS’s and @AGPamBondi’s pledge to Make America Safe Again.

If there is anything we learned from recent events, it is that America is not safe when its firefighters, police officers, and first responders are selected based on DEI instead of skill.

When wildfires rage or tragedy strikes, Americans need to know that the Department of Justice will no longer force fire and police departments to hire based on DEI rather than merit.

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