CNN: Trump turns civil rights upside down in 'biggest rollback' since Reconstruction

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2. As the DOJ's civil rights chief, Harmeet Dhillon sees a mass exodus of staffers

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Now, the Times is reporting that “hundreds” of DOJ employees aren’t sticking around to be pawns in Trump’s political game:

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.

The Times added:

The wave of departures has only accelerated in recent days, as the administration reopened its “deferred resignation program,” which would allow employees to resign but continue to be paid for a period of time. The offer, for those who work in the division, expires on Monday. More than 100 lawyers are expected to take it, on top of a raft of earlier departures, in what would amount to a decimation of the ranks of a crucial part of the Justice Department.

For her part, Dhillon has tried to downplay the worrisome message being sent by the staff exodus. In a recent interview with right-wing commentator Glenn Beck, she said: “En masse, dozens and now over 100 attorneys decided that they’d rather not do what their job requires them to do.” And in a recent interview with the conservative outlet The Daily Caller, Dhillon said “there’ll be quite a bit of turnover here” — and added her demonstrably false claim that the division will continue its “traditional, core functions,” while also pursuing “new functions that our president wants us to be looking at and new functions that I want to do.” Emphasis mine.

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