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Breaking news: New civil rights division chief said more than 100 attorneys have left their jobs, in many cases because they disagreed with the office’s new focus on combating anti-Christian bias, transgender athletes in women’s sports, and “woke ideology.”

washingtonpost.comCivil rights lawyers leave en masse as Justice Dept. mission shiftsCivil rights director Harmeet K. Dhillon redirected her staff to focus on combating antisemitism, anti-Christian bias and what she calls “woke ideology.”

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Claims of "anti-Christian bias" sound an awful lot like lead-in to antisemitism, not to mention a very warped version of what "Christianity" is supposed to mean. Did Jesus really advocate exclusion, prejudice, lack of acceptance, and discrimination? Gosh, my Bible must be an outlier...

We can't because the system is rigged in their favor. They rewrite the maps to disenfranchise votes of POC. They are openly cheating every system & rewriting laws to make criminality legal. Voting isn't gonna fix this now. It's gone too far.

If the implications weren’t so dire for the USA and the world, the Trump administration is a like watching a low budget farce. One incompetent sycophant after another has been placed in significant leadership roles. Utterly ridiculous.

Yup, that these christo fascists hate is that there are more people growing away from 'traditional christian values'. They hate that people can be openly sexual, gay, different and that religion cant be used anymore as a stick to beat them with. The see that as a loss of power.

Yes if even one Christian gets a mean look from an undesirable the full hammer of the law should be brought down upon the offender. We should divert all resources to saving the poor persecuted Christians and not let any 1st amendment nonsense stop us.

I think people are saying the Division shouldn’t PRIORITIZE battling bias against the denomination or belief system that is least persecuted. The Div isn’t prioritizing anti-religious bias in general. They’re saying more resources will go to battle anti-Christian bias. That’s deeply problematic.

I think what everyone else is saying and you aren't hearing is that Christians aren't persecuted. You are missing the point that most people in this conversation think punching Nazis is good. You no doubt would say "Oh but imagine if you said this about newborn babies?"

They just aren’t being persecuted at all. No one stops anyone from being Christian or practicing their Christian beliefs in America. There is no point in pretending.

i mean, look, on what hand i agree with you, but let's pretend we were saying this about any other faith, "jews aren't being persecuted" "muslims aren't being persecuted", maybe they are, but we should combat bigotry at its source, regardless. does that make more sense?

As we refuse to give into ‘Woke’ agenda, more and more backlash increasing. Try saying, “No” to angry (equal rights for everyone…as long as you agree with their outrage) ‘Let’s dismantle society’ cohort.

So a store clerk in a Jewish, Hindu or Muslim neighborhood wishes a customer "Happy Holidays" instead of "Merry Christmas", she'll be hauled off to El Salvador? In the old days, some slaves were "biased" against their Christian owners The poor, oppressed majority. What a bunch of paranoid snowflakes

What, exactly, are they labeling “anti-Christian”? The offense of being Muslim or Hindu? Atheism? The very real and justified rejection of KoolAid Kristianity? Or just having common sense? Sounds like a purge is coming, another wall-noodle situation, a litmus test for their very own jihad.

For the last 100 years the US government has worked because while the party in control changed the people who actually kept the trains running stayed in their jobs. The American people decided that they want reality TV over scripted comedies and dramas

Just in time for Dump's latest executive order that DoJ, DoD and DoI must explore how best to deploy US troops and national guards against 'lawbreakers' who try to implement or enforce policies or laws that promote 'illegal support' for race, gender, sexual preference etc. against the wishes of him.

The right has been pushing anti-Christian bull for years with absolutely no proof. Christian nationalism has been hiding behind religious freedom when, in reality, it's a political organization.

The civil rights issue of our time is the powerful majorities in this country that have to feel uncomfortable about their privilege. I can't wait to hear the speech from Hegseth about how he has a dream of hiring his unqualified brother over a qualified minority. Inspirational stuff.

They are going to force Christianity on us. It's already starting. I was raised in & escaped an abusive Christian pedo cult. All this christian rhetoric is a nightmare to me. We are in so much danger.

Yes thank you. I escaped as a teen, went to years of therapy, and am now a program coordinator & advocate at a crisis center for those fleeing domestic violence and sexual assault.

Stop pretending you support democracy, Mr. Bezos. You just just let the world see what kind of parent you are. Empty threats and wait til your daddy gets home. Gonna publish those tariff costs, oops, just got my hand slapped.

There should be class action lawsuits against christian organizations. We know who they are. So, as a nation, lawyer up and take them on financially. Christian harassment and intimidation are enough for forcing their religion on a free nation.

No magat lawyer will happily accept the peanuts they pay DOJ lawyers. Maybe a few of the krackpot ones educated at an online law school. No well educated lawyer will take the job risk anymore. So they will have noone to do their stupid cases.

Good! #Resist the #KKK #Nazis in the Whitey House being led by #PutinsPuppet! We need to make the Republicans in Congress more afraid of their constituents than they are of Trump. Then we can impeach Trump in the House AND convict him in the Senate. #MayDayStrong #HandsOff #FightOligarchy

What a surprise! Civil rights attorneys are leaving DOJ because it is on the wrong side of civil rights. Leaving them to hire more Alina Habbas and letting the qualified attorneys fight against them. This is why they are not allowing due process for depositions, they wouldn’t stand up in court.

So the DOJ is becoming less and less competent. It’s beginning to resemble Trump’s legal team. Not that having the likes of Todd Blanche and Alina Habba drawing government paychecks was going to do wonders for their competency…

all those jokes about where to find an honest lawyer - Here, you find them here, standing by their Ethics. All these lawyers must come back when this admin is finally put down like the incurably mangy theiving rabid dog it is.

They want to use their religious beliefs as cover to discriminate against LGBT folks. They also don't want others to be allowed to treat them poorly because of it. They also want to get out of any rule (e.g. vaccine mandates) based on their beliefs. (Totally not because they are scared of needles)

By convincing their sheep to feel victimized, the flock doesn’t notice the actual crimes against all of us as democracy is destroyed, rights and due process disappear. When will the sheep finally wake up to realize Trump is destroying America?

I’ve heard a few squawks of “Christians are being attacked!!” when folks object to being proselytized. It’s like another form of projection the GOP has honed so well for themselves

It turns out that the people who chose to work for DOJ Civil Rights wanted to work FOR civil rights, not against them. Shocker. Jobs in that section were very competitive and difficult to get, so they're losing a lot of outstanding people. Unfortunate that America elected Trump.

Kevin roberts wants to incite a war based on lies that Christians are under attack in a country with freedom of religion. Heritage foundation and rod dreher are weaponizing religion to grab power and destroy the constitution.

Exactly Project 2025’s objective. Force liberals out of their government jobs so they can be replaced with religious fanatics. Voluntary mass resignations accelerates their plan.

Finally someone who realizes how awful this is. It's a shame so many people are applauding the resignations without realizing it's exactly what the GOP wants.

Exactly. HOLD THE LINE. Our best asset is WEAPONIZED STUBBORNNESS. But since they already did, we have PLENTY of roles for any patriotic civil servants to help out in. People mentioned ACLU, any of the law firms standing up, the unis too, etc. SOLIDARITY. The war has only JUST BEGUN.

Good luck enforcing your ideology with a skeleton staff. T is radioactive. At best, you'll get a bunch of second rate lawyers who do second rate work. Also, good luck getting a job practicing law after T leaves office. Loser.

Is it 'woke' to accept differing concepts that embrace love and tolerance? Methinks I'd rather have that than a culture of fear and hatred. The whole basis of 'Christian' philosophy is surely tolerance and acceptance? As opposed to other similar Abrahamic religions which sometimes preach hatred?

We are seeing this in court filings. competent attorneys are leaving and the maga attorneys are presenting the cases ineptly. they will run out of competent attorneys to carry out their agenda and they will fail.

May 1st we Protest and Strike like it’s 1775 but peacefully ! Because if we don’t then we will end up like 1930 Germany! We have no king! Due process is a thing! If our Congress won’t take action we will! Talk is cheap take action! Boycott Amazon Walmart! @50501movement.bsky.social

They can still fight. They don’t lose their license for leaving a company. Leaving makes it possible for them to fight against these instead of for them.

No. That’s sometimes true, but when they *employ* you they can direct you to do something or fire you when you don’t. They can still fight in court having left their job. Please widen your understanding of the profession.

The NEW Justice Department has NO intention of PROTECTING CIVIL RIGHTS. You may not have noticed how ICE is kidnapping and disappearing legal visitors and American citizens? And ICE is trafficking some out of the country. So, those lawyers knew that they had no future in this kakistocracy.

These lawyers are idiots...THIS IS EXACTLY WHAT THIS ROGUE ADMINISTRATION WANTS YOU TO DO!!!! THIS IS A GADDAM SET UP YOU EFFIN MORONS. YOUR ABSCENCE WILL LEAVE A VACUUM THAT TRUMP WILL GLADLY FILL!!! STAND YOUR GROUND.

So Harmeet Dhillon, an OBVIOUS DEI HIRE, has lost 100 attorneys, who opposed her insane, money wasting, Trump-sucking-up agenda.. it’s something to see that everyone..EVERYONE..Trump appoints is a mindless, sycophantic suck up, whose only agenda is that they’re ok with destroying their own citizens