from the sun’s-out-guns-out dept
Trump has always considered cops to be better people than regular people. Unless they’re defending a federal building under attack by Trump’s people. Then they’re no better than anyone else.
Trump’s first term came coupled with an announcement that cops would be elevated above the people they’re supposed to serve and that the general public should just welcome the cool touch of swiftly-stomping boot heels to the face for the next four years. His unexpected second term came with similar expectations. Just like he did in his first term, Trump pretty much shut down the DOJ’s Civil Rights Division, which has historically been the only government agency attempting to hold local cops accountable for their rights violations.
The rest of our civil rights are continually being undermined by Trump and, subsequently, are no longer of concern to the eviscerated DOJ Civil Rights Division. We thought we’d never hear anything from this entity for the next four years, but apparently it still has some work to do. There are rights allegedly being infringed on and it’s up to the DOJ to ride to the rescue.
It’s not the First Amendment. Nor is it the Fourteenth Amendment and its Equal Protection Clause. That much was made clear by the DOJ in this late March press release:
Attorney General Pamela Bondi Launches Compliance Review Investigation into Admissions Policies at Stanford University and Several University of California Schools, Advancing President Trump’s Mandate to End Illegal DEI Policies
There will be no more diversity, inclusion, or equal protection under Trump and AG Pam Bondi. Instead, there will be government-enforced segregation and bigotry, as AG Bondi explains:
“President Trump and I are dedicated to ending illegal discrimination and restoring merit-based opportunity across the country,” said Attorney General Pamela Bondi. “Every student in America deserves to be judged solely based on their hard work, intellect, and character, not the color of their skin.”
LOL. “Merit-based.” That’s pretty rich coming from a man who only became the person he is because of constant cash infusions from his father and the generous contributions of taxpayers to several Trump business bankruptcies. And it’s no doubt backed by Trump’s diversity hires, AG Pam Bondi (a woman!) and Elon Musk (an immigrant!).
That takes civil rights off the table. What’s left for the DOJ? Well, it definitely won’t be the Fourth or Fifth Amendment. Those are rights that only protect the guilty, amirite?! This DOJ definitely won’t be wasting its time on that.
Here’s the only right the DOJ Civil Rights Division cares about these days… at least, so far. And it cares about it so much, it’s willing to investigate other law enforcement agencies.
As part of a broader review of restrictive firearms-related laws in California and other States, the Department of Justice’s Civil Rights Division today announced an investigation into the Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department to determine whether it is engaging in a pattern or practice of depriving ordinary, law-abiding Californians of their Second Amendment rights. A recent federal court decision found that “the law and facts [we]re clearly in … favor” of two private plaintiffs who challenged the lengthy eighteen-month delays that the Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department had imposed when processing their concealed handgun license applications. And the Civil Rights Division has reason to believe that those two plaintiffs are not the only residents of Los Angeles County experiencing similarly long delays that are unduly burdening, or effectively denying, the Second Amendment rights of the people of Los Angeles.
Yeah, of all the problems the LASD has — the gangs it houses, the omnipresent disregard for the Fourth Amendment, the vindictive prosecution of its critics, the jailhouse brutality, the obstruction of FBI investigations into its jailhouse snitch program — this is the thing this administration is going to get all hot and bothered about: the alleged slow-walking of concealed carry permits.
No doubt this investigation will end with a loud speech about the Democratic Republic of California and its stifling of this solitary constitutional right. And as loud and as long as the speech is (and the speech will still happen whether or not the DOJ discovers any wrongdoing), it will refuse to acknowledge this “pattern and practice” of violating civil rights includes the LASD violating rights the Trump Administration doesn’t actually care about, which would be every constitutional amendment but the Second.
Filed Under: 2nd amendment, doj, doj investigation, donald trump, lasd, los angeles county sheriff’s department, pam bondi
