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rogue emissary

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Tue Aug 1, 2017, 08:10 PM Aug 2017

Justice Dept. to Take On Affirmative Action in College Admissions [View all]

By CHARLIE SAVAGE
AUG. 1, 2017
WASHINGTON — The Trump administration is preparing to redirect resources of the Justice Department’s civil rights division toward investigating and suing universities over affirmative action admissions policies deemed to discriminate against white applicants, according to a document obtained by The New York Times.

The document, an internal announcement to the civil rights division, seeks current lawyers interested in working for a new project on “investigations and possible litigation related to intentional race-based discrimination in college and university admissions.”

The announcement suggests that the project will be run out of the division’s front office, where the Trump administration’s political appointees work, rather than its Educational Opportunities Section, which is run by career civil servants and normally handles work involving schools and universities.


https://www.nytimes.com/2017/08/01/us/politics/trump-affirmative-action-universities.html?action=Click&contentCollection=BreakingNews&contentID=65650032&pgtype=Homepage&_r=0


I'm starting to think we need a pinned thread called "What do you have to lose." So we can keep track of all of Donny's policy that specifically affects African Americans. Essentially the opposite of the " . . . . what has Pres. Obama ever done for the African-American Community".
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