Attorney General Jeff Sessions is revamping the DOJ Civil Rights division to refocus on so-called reverse racism and the internet is terrified.
According to a document obtained by The New York Times, the "Trump administration is preparing to redirect resources of the Justice Department’s civil rights division toward investigating and suing universities over affirmative action admissions policies deemed to discriminate against white applicants."
"The announcement suggests that the project will be run out of the division’s front office, where the Trump administration’s political appointees work, rather than its Educational Opportunities Section, which is run by career civil servants and normally handles work involving schools and universities," Times reporter Charlie Savage explained. "The project is another sign that the civil rights division is taking on a conservative tilt under President Trump and Attorney General Jeff Sessions. It follows other changes in Justice Department policy on voting rights, gay rights and police reforms."
“The fact that the position is in the political front office, and not in the career section that enforces antidiscrimination laws for education, suggests that this person will be carrying out an agenda aimed at undermining diversity in higher education without needing to say it,” said Vanita Gupta, who once ran the civil rights division and is now president of the Leadership Conference on Civil and Human Rights.
“This is deeply disturbing,” said Kristen Clarke, president of the Lawyer's Committee for Civil Rights Under Law. “It would be a dog whistle that could invite a lot of chaos and unnecessarily create hysteria among colleges and universities who may fear that the government may come down on them for their efforts to maintain diversity on their campuses.”
Attorney General Sessions was rejected for a federal judgeship in 1986 due to his racist past. Sessions famously said he thought the KKK was "OK until I found out they smoked pot."
Twitter was alarmed by Sessions' plan:
