MICHAEL THIELEN: DOJ Lawyers Wanted To Fight The Police, Not Antisemites

Northern Virginia suburbs of Washington, D.C. love their pompous, virtue-signaling yard signs.

Long after the rest of the country was trying to figure out how to get kids back in school and resume normal lives after COVID lockdowns, well-manicured lawns in neighborhoods just outside D.C. posted signs proclaiming, “Thank you, Dr. Fauci!”

Now, those affluent homes display yard signs announcing they “Stand with Our Federal Workers.” The implication is that poor, career civil servants are being forced out of jobs that provide critical services, and that their lost job is a loss to us all.  The reality is that some of these career federal employees are not serving the government, or the taxpayer, or the American citizen, but rather the worst aspects of a bigoted, anti-American, far Left political agenda.  In no place is that more evident than the Department of Justice Civil Rights Division.

Harmeet Dhillon, Assistant Attorney General for Civil Rights, has publicly stated that when she asked for volunteers to fight against antisemitism, not only did almost no one volunteer, but many employees at the Department of Justice actually quit their jobs.  These career attorneys (which, in some divisions, historically all come from far left “non-partisan” groups) don’t think that Jews deserve protection and would rather be unemployed than fight antisemitism.

What many of these same career DOJ employees were enthusiastic about was taking over local police departments by way of “consent decrees” to force local police departments into accountability contracts that, in many cases,