Another in an ongoing series.
Dear Senator;
I am a resident of Pennsylvania and a constituent of yours and I'd like you to answer a question or two.
First, I want to thank you for your previous responses to my letters. Two of them, however, were exactly the same letter - a letter touting your Civil Rights achievements in the US Senate.
In light of that, I'd like to ask you about something The New York Times reported recently:
Hundreds of lawyers and other staff members are leaving the Justice Department’s civil rights division, as veterans of the office say they have been driven out by Trump administration officials who want to drop its traditional work in order to aggressively pursue cases against the Ivy League, other schools and liberal cities.
And:
Traditionally the department has protected the constitutional rights of minority communities and marginalized people, often by monitoring police departments for civil rights violations, protecting the right to vote and fighting housing discrimination.
Now, more than a dozen current and former civil rights division lawyers say, the new administration appears intent on not simply modifying the direction of the work, as has been typical during changeovers from a Democratic administration to a Republican one.
The administration is instead determined, the lawyers said, to fundamentally end how the storied division has functioned since it was established during the Eisenhower administration in the 1950s, becoming an enforcement arm for President Trump’s agenda against state and local officials, college administrators and student protesters, among others.
This is the same DOJ that's headed by AG Pam Bondi, isn't it?
Weren't you the only democrat to vote to confirm her as Attorney General?
You said that she was qualified but wasn't she a 2020 election denier who falsely asserted large-scale evidence of cheating in Pennsylvania?
Any comment on how the AG you helped confirm is now dissolving the Civil Rights division at the DOJ?
I'll await your answer, Senator.
I'll post here whatever the Senator (or, more likely, his office) sends me.
