We’ve had a field day featuring those tearful, over-the-top TikToks from entry-level federal employees who can’t fathom why DOGE is cutting their positions—especially when they can’t even name five things they accomplished last week. In reality, most of them aren’t enemies of the state; they’re just poor uses of taxpayer funds. What they really need is a dose of reality: in the real world, you either deliver results or find another job.
Unfortunately, that restraint didn’t extend to the attorneys in the DOJ’s Civil Rights Division. Under President Biden—led by AG Merrick Garland and division chief Kristen Clarke—they repeatedly used their authority against law-abiding citizens, prosecuting parents for protesting at school board meetings and arresting pro-lifers for peacefully singing outside abortion clinics, among other cases.
When President Trump appointed Harmeet Dhillon to head the Civil Rights Division, she promised sweeping reforms—and she’s already begun delivering. Dhillon has directed her attorneys to prioritize enforcing the law and probing civil-rights violations that the previous administration overlooked. But that’s really not the story … or maybe only half of it. What is really telling, and what really goes to Trump’s claim that the entire department was politicized under Biden-Harris, is the fact that half the DOJ Civil Rights Division attorneys chose to quit because they can no longer go after conservatives.
The tweet adds “woke ideology” to the division’s initial priorities as well. We won’t burden you with lengthy excerpts from the Washington Post piece—it’s the usual hit job from the dying legacy media, branding Dhillon a “Republican activist” and “extremist” while leaning on countless anonymous critics. But what the Post story really shows is that, rather than deign to enforce existing laws and to do so with non-partisan vigor, these attorneys have outed themselves as little more than Democratic operatives posing as ‘civil rights lawyers,’ and all on the taxpayer’s dime. In other words, Trump was right – again.