The Civil Rights Division has undergone tremendous changes under Sessions’ leadership and reversed course on many Obama-era legal positions, including two significant voting rights cases.
Last year, Sessions also issued a memo declaring that the Civil Rights Act of 1964 does not protect transgender people from workplace discrimination.
Among some of the topics that have been prioritised by the Civil Rights Division under Sessions include the defence of “religious freedom,” such as backing anti-abortion centres in a case over a California law requiring notices be provided on where women can receive state-funded abortions.
Reuters
And now...
The United States Senate voted 50-47 on Thursday to confirm Eric Dreiband as the new assistant attorney general for the Justice Department’s Civil Rights Division.
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Dreiband’s nomination was strongly opposed by some civil rights advocacy groups, who pointed to his legal track record of representing companies in high-profile discrimination cases and articles he wrote that were critical of the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission.
...but hey, do what you want...you will anyway.
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