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fishkin.bsky.social Joey Fishkin @fishkin.bsky.social · Jun 24
We need more writing by the attorneys who left the Civil Rights Division. This article by Katie Chamblee-Ryan is a good start.

The destruction of this central pillar of the American justice system can be undone in the future—but only if people understand what happened.

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As the Civil Rights Division crumbled, so did our work. In March, the administration dropped a lawsuit against migrant shelters, alleging that employees repeatedly sexually abused children. The administration reversed our efforts to advance crucial freedoms like the right to vote and to be free from racial discrimination in hiring and replaced them with new cases loaded with political invective. Thus, for example, the division dropped its lawsuit against SpaceX for discriminatory hiring and opened a reverse-discrimination case against the mayor of Chicago (a Democrat) after he touted the diversity of his administration. Days before the fifth anniversary of George Floyd’s murder, the administration announced that it wouldn’t pursue any remedies against police departments (including in Minneapolis) that my colleagues and I found had repeatedly and egregiously violated people’s rights, including by killing them with excessive force. For those of us who had spent countless hours analyzing body-cam footage of police violence against children and people with disabilities, people who whimpered, wet themselves, and begged for their lives, our grief for the unrealized promise of our work will haunt us forever.
July 5, 2025 at 3:32 PM
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