Trump Freezes DOJ’s Civil Rights Division
Posted By: ConservativeYankee, 1/24/2025 1:32:49 PM
The U.S. Department of Justice ordered its civil rights division to halt a majority of its functions, including a freeze on pursuing new cases, indictments or settlements, according to reporting from the Washington Post. Per a memo sent to Kathleen Wolfe — President Donald Trump’s appointee as the temporary supervisor of the DOJ’s civil rights division until his nominee, Harmeet Dhillon, is confirmed by the U.S. Senate — the division is to not file “any new complaints, motions to intervene, agreed-upon remands, amicus briefs, or statements of interest.” The DOJ’s civil rights division is primarily tasked with enforcing laws prohibiting discrimination — from disability rights to housing, immigrant and civil rights
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The U.S. Department of Justice ordered its civil rights division to halt a majority of its functions, including a freeze on pursuing new cases, indictments or settlements, according to reporting from the Washington Post.
Per a memo sent to Kathleen Wolfe — President Donald Trump’s appointee as the temporary supervisor of the DOJ’s civil rights division until his nominee, Harmeet Dhillon, is confirmed by the U.S. Senate — the division is to not file “any new complaints, motions to intervene, agreed-upon remands, amicus briefs, or statements of interest.”
The DOJ’s civil rights division is primarily tasked with enforcing laws prohibiting discrimination — from disability rights to housing, immigrant and civil rights
President Donald Trump has terminated Dr. Anthony Fauci's taxpayer-funded security detail less than a week after President Joe Biden have him a preemptive pardon.
CNN reported Friday on the latest move by Trump to punish his political enemies.
Fauci - the former director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases - has since hired a private security firm, the network said.
The longtime infectious disease expert has taken much of the blame for the unpopular lockdowns amid the COVID-19 pandemic, despite working under Trump at the time.
During his trip to Asheville, North Carolina Friday, Trump shrugged off the move. 'No, I think you know,
Secretary of State Marco Rubio bans passports
with ‘X’ gender markers after Trump
order: report 6 replies
with ‘X’ gender markers after Trump
order: report 6 replies
Secretary of State Marco Rubio has scrapped US passport applications allowing Americans to designate their gender identity as “X” after President Trump issued an executive order Monday that it is now “the policy of the United States to recognize two sexes, male and female.”
State Department staff were informed of the change in an internal cable sent Thursday mandating “sex, and not gender, shall be used” in official documents like passports and birth records in US embassies and consulates abroad, the Guardian reported.
Staff were specifically instructed to “suspend any application requesting an X sex marker” and to “suspend any application where the applicant is seeking to change their sex marker.”
A shocking scene unfolded Thursday morning in America’s smallest state that might be related to President Trump’s ongoing immigration crackdown.
As The Providence Journal reported, FBI agents raided the law offices of Joseph Molina Flynn at The 127 Dorrance St. building in Providence. Molina Flynn is a prominent immigration lawyer in Massachusetts and Rhode Island and serves as a municipal court judge in Central Falls, Rhode Island.
The Valley Breeze notes that Molina Flynn was once an illegal alien from Colombia before becoming an attorney. He became the first illegal to serve on the bench in Central Falls back in 2021.
U.S. civil rights groups are warning that an executive order signed by President Donald Trump on Monday lays the groundwork for reinstatement of a ban on travelers from predominantly Muslim or Arab countries.
The American-Arab Anti-Discrimination Committee (ADC) said the new order relied on the same statutory authority used to justify Trump's 2017 travel ban and offered even "wider latitude to use ideological exclusion to deny visa requests and remove individuals" who had already entered the country. It unveiled a new 24-hour hotline
The Pentagon announced the Department of Defense will provide military airlift support to support the DHS in deporting detained illegal aliens. The United States Air Force will supply four aircraft to remove up to 5,000 aliens currently detained by U.S. Customs and Border Protection.
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Former U.S. Marine Daniel Penny accepted Vice President-elect J.D. Vance’s invitation Friday to be his personal guest at the upcoming Army-Navy game over the weekend.
A jury found Penny not guilty of criminally negligent homicide on Monday relating to the death of Jordan Neely, a 30-year-old homeless man, who the now-former defendant held in a chokehold to protect surrounding passengers on a New York City subway in May 2023. Vance praised Penny for his “courage” and criticized Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg, who prosecuted the former Marine, for attempting to “ruin [Penny’s] life for having a backbone” in a Friday post on X.
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of Duty 29 replies
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The report found that 94% of federal workers do not show up in person regularly, highlighting the poor service delivery and complacency in government offices.
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Rev. Al Sharpton leads Costco ‘buy-cott’
in support of company’s controversial
DEI commitment 30 replies
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“It’s very important to be here,” Perry added.
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Pete Hegseth was confirmed as Secretary of Defense in a late night confirmation vote on Friday night.
Vice President JD Vance cast the tie-breaking vote on Friday after toxic RINO Senators McConnell, Murkowski and Collins voted “no.”
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The corrupt ANC government just starved dozens of black miners to death to gain control over the diamond trade. The regime suffered a massive decline in popularity forcing it to cut deals even as it hiked welfare spending and taxes. [SNIP] President Cyril Ramaphosa on Thursday signed the Expropriation Bill into law.
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President Donald Trump is demanding the return of a staggering $7 billion in U.S. military gear left behind during the chaotic withdrawal from Afghanistan under the Biden administration. In a move that’s drawing both support and criticism, Trump has called on the Taliban to recover the equipment, which includes advanced weapons, vehicles, and other critical resources. The request has sparked debate over accountability and the handling of the withdrawal, with Trump arguing that the gear should never have been abandoned in the first place. However, the Taliban is refusing to give it back to its rightful owners.
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Former President Joe Biden, who is Catholic, joined a historically black Freemason lodge just one day before he left the presidency, an offense punishable by excommunication in the Church.
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President Donald Trump fired 17 independent watchdogs at multiple government agencies on Friday, a person with knowledge of the matter said, eliminating a critical oversight component and clearing the way to replace them with loyalists.
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The dismissals appeared to violate federal law, which requires the president to give both houses of Congress reasons for the dismissals 30 days in advance.