DeVos: Civil rights office will return to being a 'neutral' agency
Source: Politco
Education Secretary Betsy DeVos said she is "returning" the Office for Civil Rights "to its role as a neutral, impartial, investigative agency."
In a July 11 letter to Democratic Sen. Patty Murray, DeVos asserted that the department's civil rights arm under the Obama administration "had descended into a pattern of overreaching, of setting out to punish and embarrass institutions rather than work with them to correct civil rights violations and of ignoring public input prior to issuing new rules."
As part of the changes she is implementing, the civil rights office would no longer issue "new regulations via administrative fiat," as the Obama administration did, she wrote.
DeVos' letter, which lays out a far less activist philosophy for the civil rights office, came in response to a letter sent late last month by 34 Senate Democrats, who blasted her for a series of actions they said had "diminished" civil rights enforcement. The lawmakers asked DeVos for a host of information by July 11, including a list of civil rights investigations that have been closed or dismissed since the Trump administration began. DeVos didn't provide any of the information in her response.
Read more: http://www.politico.com/story/2017/07/16/betsy-devos-civil-rights-office-240610
Solly Mack
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Rhiannon12866
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(20,018 posts)by the orange idiot (who never would have been elected).
secondwind
(16,903 posts)This turns my stomach. She didn't even use her own words, she is a moron
C_U_L8R
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(45,256 posts)and those who think discrimination makes America great again like it was 100 years ago
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(25,911 posts)I stood by that this Winter, and still do.
lib-ruhl
(127 posts)These appointments take their orders and direction from the Mother ship. We must infect the Mother ship with a virus like impeachment to bring them all down.
icymist
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(16,887 posts)there's a lot that would NOT change, even if we did get rid of Orange Cheat-o........................
These Cabinet appointees were chosen to DESTROY the institutions they head. They either have a history of being oblivious to them or in outright opposition.
...all the earmarks of Bannon brainchild.
Blue_Tires
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(3,318 posts)What the hell is her problem, anyway?
Marcuse
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