Hamza Adam 
According to several reports, there are a slew of changes happening inside the Department of Justice’s Civil Rights Division. In a new column, former Prosecutor Joyce Vance claims, career employees at the DOJ “seem shell-shocked [and] many of them [are] leaving or preparing to.”
Reuters reported, “about a dozen senior career attorneys” were reassigned to lower-level attorney duties, like responding to FOIA requests. Other outlets claim missions in different sections within the Division were “radically altered.”
“For instance, [the mission] for the voting section, ‘barely mentions the Voting Rights Act and instead says the section will focus on preventing voter fraud,” Vance wrote.
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“The Division really is the crown jewel of the Department,” Vance added. “The work it’s people do makes us a better country in very real ways. Losing it is unthinkable.”
Some of the work Vance’s office did with the Civil Rights Division included “protecting the rights of diabetic school children, making sure voters in wheelchairs could access their polling places, and prosecuting police use of excessive force that left people badly injured.”
Vance alleged, “Under Trump, the Division is taking on a new focus: protecting Christians from discrimination. I have no issue with that work—Christians’ civil rights are due the same protection as everyone else’s.”
“The Division’s work has always reflected the reality that it is marginalized groups whose rights are most at risk and who need protection.” According to Vance, “this new bent seems to be more about prioritizing one faith at the cost of others, approaching violation of the First Amendment’s prohibition against the establishment of any one religion.”
In the first weeks of her tenure, Attorney General Bondi directed the Civil Rights Division to use its resources to write a memo “containing recommendations for enforcing federal civil-rights laws and taking other appropriate measures to encourage the private sector to end illegal discrimination and preferences, including policies relating to DEI and DEIA.”
Vance interpreted this as, “they were directed to identify top targets in each ‘sector of concern.’ Instead of preventing discrimination, the Division is apparently now required to turn informant on entities doing the most to prevent it.”
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