Well one of them that he gutted was the Office of Civil Rights in the Department of Education... So if you have a civil rights complaint there is nowhere to go to seek help.
‘They Don’t Care About Civil Rights’
Trump’s Shuttering of DHS Oversight Arm Freezes 600 Cases, Imperils Human Rights
CT News JunkieBy J. David McSwane and Hannah Allam, ProPublicaApril 9, 2025On Feb. 10, more than a dozen Department of Homeland Security officials joined a video conference to discuss an obscure, sparsely funded program overseen by its Office for Civil Rights and Civil Liberties. The office, charged with investigating when the national security agency is accused of violating the rights of both immigrants and U.S. citizens, had found itself in the crosshairs of Elon Musk’s secretive Department of Government Efficiency, or DOGE.It began as a typical briefing, with Homeland Security officials explaining to DOGE a program many describe as a win-win. It had provided some $20 million in recent years to local organizations that provide case workers to keep people in immigration proceedings showing up to court, staff explained, without expensive detentions and ankle monitors.[...]None of it worked. On March 21, DHS Secretary Kristi Noem shut down the office and fired most of the 150-person staff. As a result, about 600 civil rights abuse investigations were frozen.
The Republican believe that they are exempt from laws and can do what they want! In a ProPublica article they write;
With a mass email sharing what it called “difficult news,” the U.S. Department of Education has eroded one of its own key duties, abolishing more than half of the offices that investigate civil rights complaints from students and their families.
Civil rights complaints in schools and colleges largely have been investigated through a dozen regional outposts across the country. Now there will be five.
The Office for Civil Rights’ locations in Boston, Chicago, Cleveland, Dallas, New York, Philadelphia and San Francisco are being shuttered, ProPublica has learned. Offices will remain in Atlanta, Denver, Kansas City, Seattle and Washington, D.C.
Hmm... did you notice that all the offices shut are from Democratic states?
All that lead up to this...
Students, additional parents join lawsuit challenging Department of Education's abandoning of civil rights investigations
Plaintiffs have pending complaints with Office for Civil Rights, alleging sexual assault, harassment and discrimination based on race, gender identity and expression, and/or disability status
National Center for Youth LawApril 10, 2025Multiple parents and students, including two in middle school, from various states across the country have joined a federal lawsuit that seeks to restore the functions of the U.S. Department of Education's Office for Civil Rights (OCR) and reverse recent actions that effectively eliminate OCR’s ability to process and investigate civil rights complaints, according to an amended complaint filed today.
Each of the additional plaintiffs in the suit, filed by the National Center for Youth Law (NCYL) and Council of Parent Attorneys and Advocates, Inc. (COPAA), have pending claims with OCR alleging discrimination on the basis of race, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, and/or disability. The initial lawsuit was filed March 14.
"At a time when hostility toward the transgender community is at an all-time high, it is immoral and irresponsible for the agency charged with safeguarding students from discrimination to turn their back on these kids," said Melissa Combs, a parent plaintiff who was forced to move her child to a different school after her child was harassed due to their gender identity. "No student should have to experience what mine did, and no parent should have to take the extraordinary steps I’ve had to take to ensure my child’s equal access to an education."
It is a sad that that the government has to be sued to do their job of enforcing the law!
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