{"id":163076,"date":"2026-09-17T07:55:54","date_gmt":"2026-09-17T15:55:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/2026\/09\/17\/trumps-doj-hired-a-demolition-crew-for-civil-rights-enforcement\/"},"modified":"2026-09-17T07:55:54","modified_gmt":"2026-09-17T15:55:54","slug":"trumps-doj-hired-a-demolition-crew-for-civil-rights-enforcement","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/2026\/09\/17\/trumps-doj-hired-a-demolition-crew-for-civil-rights-enforcement\/","title":{"rendered":"Trump\u2019s DOJ Hired A \u2018Demolition Crew\u2019 For Civil Rights Enforcement"},"content":{"rendered":"

Ed. note<\/u>: Welcome to our daily feature,\u00a0Quote of the Day<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n

The staffing really matches the mission [to] dismantle civil rights enforcement as we\u2019ve known it for 60 years. This is the demolition crew that they\u2019ve hired.<\/strong><\/p>\n

\u2014<\/i><\/span> \u00a0<\/span>Regan Rush, a longtime career lawyer in the Justice Department\u2019s Civil Rights Division who served as chief of its special litigation section until May, in comments given to Bloomberg Law<\/a>, concerning the division\u2019s hiring of more than 80 lawyers with backgrounds in conservative advocacy and Republican politics. More than 300 of the division\u2019s 400-plus attorneys have reportedly left during the past 19 months as its focus shifted from protecting historically marginalized communities to Trump administration priorities like defending gun rights and fighting alleged anti-Christian bias. Rush now leads Democracy Forward\u2019s Red Line for Civil Rights, which tracks and analyzes the administration\u2019s civil rights enforcement efforts.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

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Staci Zaretsky<\/a> is the managing editor of Above the Law, where she\u2019s worked since 2011. She\u2019d love to hear from you, so please feel free to email<\/a> her with any tips, questions, comments, or critiques. You can follow her on Bluesky<\/a>, X\/Twitter<\/a>, and Threads<\/a>, or connect with her on LinkedIn<\/a>.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

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Ed. note<\/u>: Welcome to our daily feature,\u00a0Quote of the Day<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n

The staffing really matches the mission [to] dismantle civil rights enforcement as we\u2019ve known it for 60 years. This is the demolition crew that they\u2019ve hired.<\/strong><\/p>\n

\u2014<\/i> \u00a0Regan Rush, a longtime career lawyer in the Justice Department\u2019s Civil Rights Division who served as chief of its special litigation section until May, in comments given to Bloomberg Law<\/a>, concerning the division\u2019s hiring of more than 80 lawyers with backgrounds in conservative advocacy and Republican politics. More than 300 of the division\u2019s 400-plus attorneys have reportedly left during the past 19 months as its focus shifted from protecting historically marginalized communities to Trump administration priorities like defending gun rights and fighting alleged anti-Christian bias. Rush now leads Democracy Forward\u2019s Red Line for Civil Rights, which tracks and analyzes the administration\u2019s civil rights enforcement efforts.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

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Staci Zaretsky<\/a> is the managing editor of Above the Law, where she\u2019s worked since 2011. She\u2019d love to hear from you, so please feel free to email<\/a> her with any tips, questions, comments, or critiques. You can follow her on Bluesky<\/a>, X\/Twitter<\/a>, and Threads<\/a>, or connect with her on LinkedIn<\/a>.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Ed. note: Welcome to our daily feature,\u00a0Quote of the Day. The staffing really matches the mission [to] dismantle civil rights enforcement as we\u2019ve known it for 60 years. This is the demolition crew that they\u2019ve hired. \u2014 \u00a0Regan Rush, a longtime career lawyer in the Justice Department\u2019s Civil Rights Division who served as chief of […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":163034,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-163076","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-above_the_law"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/163076","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=163076"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/163076\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/163034"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=163076"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=163076"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=163076"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}