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demmiblue

(36,744 posts)
Mon Jul 17, 2017, 06:07 AM Jul 2017

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

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FiveGoodMen

(20,018 posts)
18. People already are stupid or DeVos never would have been selected
Mon Jul 17, 2017, 07:56 PM
Jul 2017

by the orange idiot (who never would have been elected).

secondwind

(16,903 posts)
5. Omg, where have we descended to?
Mon Jul 17, 2017, 07:03 AM
Jul 2017

This turns my stomach. She didn't even use her own words, she is a moron

IronLionZion

(45,256 posts)
8. To be fair and balanced they will give equal support to rapists
Mon Jul 17, 2017, 07:37 AM
Jul 2017

and those who think discrimination makes America great again like it was 100 years ago



obamanut2012

(25,911 posts)
9. I still say she is by far the worst of the Cabinet appointments, including Sessions
Mon Jul 17, 2017, 07:41 AM
Jul 2017

I stood by that this Winter, and still do.

lib-ruhl

(127 posts)
10. This is like the movie " Independence Day"
Mon Jul 17, 2017, 08:05 AM
Jul 2017

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.

MyOwnPeace

(16,887 posts)
12. I believe
Mon Jul 17, 2017, 08:19 AM
Jul 2017

there's a lot that would NOT change, even if we did get rid of Orange Cheat-o........................

CakeGrrl

(10,611 posts)
19. True
Tue Jul 18, 2017, 12:16 AM
Jul 2017

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.

Marcuse

(7,392 posts)
17. Reminds one of Reagan's cynical appointment of Clarence Thomas
Mon Jul 17, 2017, 11:44 AM
Jul 2017

to the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission with a mandate to oppose reverse racism.

"The reverse of racism is everyone loving and respecting each other. You are confusing reverse racism with Karma."
- Wanda Sykes

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