Trump guts civil rights enforcement — and blocks a key tool against discrimination

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Trump guts civil rights enforcement — and blocks a key tool against discrimination

Donald Trump’s administration has decimated the “crown jewel” of the Department of Justice.Dozens of career officials working in the department’s storied civil rights division have left in a mass exodus of prosecutors and staff.Trump’s new chief of the storied division, Harmeet Dhillon, has recast the agency’s mission into one that leans into the president’s grievances and shifts its focus away from critical missions like police oversight, voting rights protections and combating racial discrimination.The president has also signed an executive order that directs federal agencies to abandon a critical tool used to enforce the landmark Civil Rights Act, the bedrock civil ..