Trump’s DOJ Civil Rights Division Finally Finds A Civil Right Worth Protecting
from the sun's-out-guns-out dept
Trump has always considered cops to be better people than regular people. Unless they’re defending a federal building under attack by Trump’s people. Then they’re no better than anyone else.
Trump’s first term came coupled with an announcement that cops would be elevated above the people they’re supposed to serve and that the general public should just welcome the cool touch of swiftly-stomping boot heels to the face for the next four years. His unexpected second term came with similar expectations. Just like he did in his first term, Trump pretty much shut down the DOJ’s Civil Rights Division, which has historically been the only government agency attempting to hold local cops accountable for their rights violations.
The rest of our civil rights are continually being undermined by Trump and, subsequently, are no longer of concern to the eviscerated DOJ Civil Rights Division. We thought we’d never hear anything from this entity for the next four years, but apparently it still has some work to do. There are rights allegedly being infringed on and it’s up to the DOJ to ride to the rescue.
It’s not the First Amendment. Nor is it the Fourteenth Amendment and its Equal Protection Clause. That much was made clear by the DOJ in this late March press release:
Attorney General Pamela Bondi Launches Compliance Review Investigation into Admissions Policies at Stanford University and Several University of California Schools, Advancing President Trump’s Mandate to End Illegal DEI Policies
There will be no more diversity, inclusion, or equal protection under Trump and AG Pam Bondi. Instead, there will be government-enforced segregation and bigotry, as AG Bondi explains:
“President Trump and I are dedicated to ending illegal discrimination and restoring merit-based opportunity across the country,” said Attorney General Pamela Bondi. “Every student in America deserves to be judged solely based on their hard work, intellect, and character, not the color of their skin.”
LOL. “Merit-based.” That’s pretty rich coming from a man who only became the person he is because of constant cash infusions from his father and the generous contributions of taxpayers to several Trump business bankruptcies. And it’s no doubt backed by Trump’s diversity hires, AG Pam Bondi (a woman!) and Elon Musk (an immigrant!).
That takes civil rights off the table. What’s left for the DOJ? Well, it definitely won’t be the Fourth or Fifth Amendment. Those are rights that only protect the guilty, amirite?! This DOJ definitely won’t be wasting its time on that.
Here’s the only right the DOJ Civil Rights Division cares about these days… at least, so far. And it cares about it so much, it’s willing to investigate other law enforcement agencies.
As part of a broader review of restrictive firearms-related laws in California and other States, the Department of Justice’s Civil Rights Division today announced an investigation into the Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department to determine whether it is engaging in a pattern or practice of depriving ordinary, law-abiding Californians of their Second Amendment rights. A recent federal court decision found that “the law and facts [we]re clearly in … favor” of two private plaintiffs who challenged the lengthy eighteen-month delays that the Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department had imposed when processing their concealed handgun license applications. And the Civil Rights Division has reason to believe that those two plaintiffs are not the only residents of Los Angeles County experiencing similarly long delays that are unduly burdening, or effectively denying, the Second Amendment rights of the people of Los Angeles.
Yeah, of all the problems the LASD has — the gangs it houses, the omnipresent disregard for the Fourth Amendment, the vindictive prosecution of its critics, the jailhouse brutality, the obstruction of FBI investigations into its jailhouse snitch program — this is the thing this administration is going to get all hot and bothered about: the alleged slow-walking of concealed carry permits.
No doubt this investigation will end with a loud speech about the Democratic Republic of California and its stifling of this solitary constitutional right. And as loud and as long as the speech is (and the speech will still happen whether or not the DOJ discovers any wrongdoing), it will refuse to acknowledge this “pattern and practice” of violating civil rights includes the LASD violating rights the Trump Administration doesn’t actually care about, which would be every constitutional amendment but the Second.
Filed Under: 2nd amendment, doj, doj investigation, donald trump, lasd, los angeles county sheriff's department, pam bondi
Comments on “Trump’s DOJ Civil Rights Division Finally Finds A Civil Right Worth Protecting”
I don’t know if DOJ “other fundamental constitutional rights” enforcement is a good example theses days.
Bill Of Rights Pared Down To A Manageable Six
The Onion. 2002.
The fact I figured it was second amendment-related before even reading the full article is not only sad, but it goes to show how predictable the right is these days.
Dismissing an ICE enforcement action that saw a Maryland man with protected legal status deported to El Salvador as an “administrative error”? No rights violations to speak of; nothing to see here… California taking its time to properly process concealed carry permit applications instead of granting them willy-nilly? Now THAT has gone too far! We must stop this infringement on people’s constitutional rights!! 🙄
What’s so surprising? Republicans love killing people. Republicans get off to dead school children
Re:
They’ll recruit the “think of the children” democrats to help them further isolate and silence kids online too, leaving them with nowhere to find support or help if they’re stuck in a bad home enviroment.
None of the parties care about children.
Wanna bet that sheriff’s office voted 100% MAGA?
Surely this will come back to bite them when all the second amendment well ordered militia types rise up to put an end to the tyranny of the MAGA GOP.
Surely.
DOJ
it’s nice to see that the DOJ is still alive and twitching…after getting NEUTERED!
they found the one thing they can still investigate! nevermind the pig farms that need a consent decree! nevermind the civil right of the peasants! nevermind that the blue lies mafia continually goes unchecked! oh well!! just nevermind! the sheeple will come to find there favorite flavor of boot polish! and enjoy that boot on there neck!
Trump should have a civil WRONGS department.
If merit actually mattered the way these fuckheads claimed, Bondi’s useless ass would be working at a Jacksonville Waffle House.
Trump's DOJ and the Second Amendment
And so the biggest canard of the Right lives on.
The Second Amendment, of course, does not recognize an individual right. It recognizes the right of the citizenry to maintain a militia, something of great concern at the time. As the Constitution established the authority of the government to raise an army, there was a hue and cry over the fate of the militia. The Second Amendment, which identifies this right of the citizenry in its opening phrases, was Madison’s nod to the concerns raised by fears of an army.
No more to it than that.