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Michael Popak
Has completely destroyed the Civil Rights Division of the Department of Justice. And that matters. That once proud organization, the crown jewel of the Department of Justice, has now been effectively eliminated by Donald Trump. It's been around since 1957. It's been charged with making sure people aren't discriminated in housing, discriminated in employment, voting rights to be enforced, making sure there's no discrimination or harassment in education. Gone. 70% of the lawyers have left. Rather than serve under DOJ, Attorney General Pam Bondi and Harmeet Dhillon, who was appointed. It's a joke. Who was appointed to be the head of the Civil Rights Division with the sole purpose of putting the Civil Rights Division out of business. And on Law Day today, May 1, it is important that we look at what happened and what it means in terms of this presidency. The depravity continues.
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Michael Popak
Midas Touch Network and on Legal af. I'm Michael Popak let's take a look at what we're talking about first. Let's start with what is the Civil Rights Division? Some people may not have realized we had one. We certainly had one under Joe Biden and Merrick Garland. If I just had a list for you, the top 10 things the Civil Rights Division did to make your life better in the past before Donald Trump got his grubby little hands on it. Let's start with its formation in 1957 around school desegregation. It helped enforce Brown versus the board of Education to desegregate our schools to make sure that black schoolchildren could go to school with white schoolchildren. Yes, yes, Virginia, that happened in this country in 1962. It helped James Meredith get into the University of Mississippi to be the first black student in the Voting Rights act of 1965. And forward. It helps stop voter suppression that still goes on today, especially in the black and brown community. Under the Fair housing Act of 1968, it went after landlords who discriminated. You know who some of those fair housing landlords that discriminated and were on the receiving end of the Civil Rights Division 1, Donald Trump and his and his father, Fred Trump. I assure you that went into the mix of getting rid of the Civil Rights Division. Donald Trump vindication, Donald Trump retribution after 50 or 60 years to get rid of the Fair Housing act and the Civil Rights Division role in enforcing it. But I'm not done. Hate crimes and violence, including church bombings, synagogue bombings, cross burnings. Civil Rights Division of the Department of Justice, Americans with Disability act and making sure that's properly enforced around the country. Civil Rights Division. I mean, I'm not done. Police brutality, police pattern and practices where entire law enforcement, police, police forces are the subject of investigation and either being disbanded or shut down or counseled. That came out, that past tense came out of the Civil Rights Division. What do we have now? Donald Trump just passes a new signs, a new executive order to unleash law enforcement against the American people. Right. That's our problem. We have, we have leashed law enforcement. So now we're going to unleash law enforcement and forget completely about police pattern and practices that are going on in cities across this country. But I, but I digress. Title 7 and Title 9, Title 7, discrimination and harassment. They had a role in enforcing that. Those laws, Title 9 laws in higher education about students and faculty being abused and harassed, gone with the shuttering of the Civil Rights Division that's now lost 70% of its personnel. And then of course, we've got LGBTQ+ rights, having been previously vindicated by that same department. You know what it does now? The remaining 105 people out of what was 235, you know what they do? They run around to do whatever Harvey Dillon tells them to do, to twiddle their thumbs. Go after voter fraud. Voter fraud in America. It's 0.0002% of American voting. Go after white people discrimination. Is that. That sounds like a proper. This. This craps all over the. The, the proud reputation of the Civil Rights Division to be going after white people discrimination and go after transgender people, and I can't put it any other way, investigate transgender people who just want to be U.S. citizens and have protections. This is Fahrenheit 451. This is firemen burning books instead of putting out fires. And it's all because of Donald Trump. Part of it is him wanting to completely turn over the game board of what it means to be an American and redefine it and redefine our values in front of our very eyes, which, of course, we can't allow. Let me read to you what. And it's a weird, a weird juxtaposition to go on the Civil Rights Division website now and to see it's like a combination of the lofty goals and ideals where they actually reference some of their civil rights success. And then on top of it, a transgender attack. It's like this bizarre cut and paste where Donald Trump is co opting now that he's gotten his grubby hands on the Civil Rights Division. He's like co opting it's for his own purpose. So when you go on the Department of Justice website now headed by Harmeet Dillard, who I'll talk about next, it says if you go to the. About the division, it's a very long. You wouldn't think there was any changes whatsoever. Let me read it to you. The Civil Rights Division of the Department of justice, created in 1957 by the enactment of the Civil Rights act of 1957, works to uphold the civil and constitutional rights of all persons in the United States, particularly some of the most vulnerable members of our society. White people apparently are some of the most vulnerable people in our society. I thought transgender people were some of the most vulnerable people in our society. Ms. Dylan. The division enforces federal statutes prohibiting discrimination on the basis of race, color, sex, disability, religion, familial status, national origin and citizenship. Citizenship status. Oh, it did until Harmeet Dillon, Pam Bondi, and Donald Trump got their hands on it. And they got rid of 70% of their of their attorneys. Do you believe? Do you believe right now there are zero the exact amount, zero attorneys assigned to title to title seven. Discrimination and harassment. So how are you going to accomplish these lofty goals that were there before? You know, when Biden was still there, when you have nobody that wants to do your work? Oh, have I told you lately I love Rocket Money, mainly because it helped me save on subscriptions that I had forgotten about. 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Michael Popak
RocketMoney.com Legal A F if you go on the now listen to this. This this again is this weird combination of we're going to attack transgender people with leaving on the website the original text for the purposes of the Civil Rights Division. Since its establishment, the division has grown dramatically in both size and scope.
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No, it shrunk 70% under Harmeet Dhillon.
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Michael Popak
And has played a role in many of the nation's pivotal civil rights battles. You see how they're use, right? This veneer of we're still the Civil Rights Division and yet they've gotten rid of all the lawyers and all of the priorities and reoriented it towards Donald Trump's vindictive campaign. But the website still says the following and they should be ashamed of themselves. Division attorneys prosecuted the defendants accused of murdering three civil rights workers in Mississippi in 1964 and were involved in the investigation of the assassinations of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. And Medgar Evers. This Civil Rights Division wouldn't have done that. The division enforces a wide array of laws that protect the civil rights of all individuals. But at the very top of the website, what you what you see when you go to the website is the following a video from Pam Bondi. Attorney General Pam Bondi announces enforcement actions against the state of Maine for for violating Title 9 that has to do with eliminating transgender athletes and Maine not wanting to do it and now being sued. So that is going after transgender people apparently is the is the number one thing they want you to know that they're working on, right? Here's another one. Justice Department files statement of interest in a New Hampshire religious land use case. Justice Department corrects past administrations. Read those as Democrats Manipulation of the legal system that sought to force states to provide surgery to transgender inmates. Attorney General Pam Bondi hosts first task force meeting to eradicate anti Christian bias in the federal government. You see where this is going? Not one press release related to Harmeet Dhillon. Let's talk about her for a minute. Where'd she come from? Harmeet Dylan who I know reasonably well how one I worked with her on a case when she was on the right side of the angels representing small businesses that helped prepare applications for those PPP loans during COVID and were screwed out of their money by big banks. We went after the big banks. She was part of that team. I also was against her in representing the Midas Touch network when we sued her client, Marjorie Taylor Greene for improperly using her Twitter account. She was using her personal Twitter account for for government business. But she blocked Midas Touch and we sued successfully in federal court and reached a settlement that worked for everybody, including including money being donated by Harmony by Marjorie Taylor Greene. So I know this person reasonably well. She's been a, a go to lawyer for maga, one of the top five representing all sorts of MAGA interests, all sorts of people that were prosecuted during Jan6. Harmeet Dillon. She wanted to be a politico herself. She ran and came in second to be the head of the Republican National Committee. This was the consolation prize as a lawyer. She always wanted to be attorney general. So she didn't get attorney General, but she got the number five or six position in the, in the Department of Justice instead. And now everybody's heading for the doors. Let me show you what she just gave an interview that I want to show you right now that I think is very, very important. Let's run a clip of her interview on a recent podcast and then we'll interpret it all right here. Here's her on Glenn Beck. It is, it was described by an official at the senior attorney said that it was a bloodbath that's happening now at the DOJ under you. What do they mean by that?
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Harmeet Dhillon
Well, I mean, it's a colorful rhetoric, and none of these people had the guts to attach their names to these colorful quotes. But what people in the private sector would call a severance package proposal offered to federal government officials almost throughout the entire federal government. Many people in the Civil Rights Division have chosen to take that generous severance package which pays them for several months while they do nothing. I mean, I wish someone would pay me several months to do nothing, but I actually have never had that opportunity. No one has been fired by me since I came. This is like my 15th day on the job. But what we have made very clear last week in memos to each of the 11 sections in the Civil Rights Division is that our priorities under President Trump are going to be somewhat different than they were under President Biden. And we start with the statutory basis because that's where you always start as a lawyer and the Constitution. And then we tell them these are the president's priorities. This is what we will be focusing on. You know, govern, govern yourself accordingly and en masse. Dozens and now over 100 attorneys decided that they'd rather not do what their job requires them to do.
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Michael Popak
And okay, so what does it all mean? It all means this is about depraved policies of Donald Trump, his vindictiveness coming back him, him getting rid of the division that went after him, his daddy and him over discrimination and fair housing. And think of all the things that have been accomplished historically by the civil rights division that are now over and done until the Democrats take back power, I'm going to continue to follow it all right here. It's that important especially on law day, a day where I and we'll put it up on the Legal AF YouTube channel, Legal AF MTN where I took retook my oath of office related to my bar, my bar licenses along with dozens and thousands and thousands of other lawyers around the country on today because we believe in the rule of law. You guys are the foot soldiers along with us to defend the constitution here on the Midas Touch Network and of course over on Legal AF until my next report. I'm Michael Popak in collaboration with the Midas Touch Network. We just launched the Legal AF YouTube channel. Help us build this pro democracy channel where I'll be curating the top stories the intersection of law and Politics. Go to YouTube now and free subscribe at LegalAFMTN. That's @legal AFMTN.