Harmeet Dhillon
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they've been mutilated by a medical industrial complex that ignored their comorbidities and that for profit destroyed their bodies and their minds. And so that's going to be a focus. To what extent do parents have the right, which Supreme Court has said they have the right, to know what's going on in our schools. Our schools have become woke madrasas pushing left-wing ideology.
And again, parents have a natural right and a civil right to control their children's education. And so we will continue a lot of the important traditional work. Americans with Disabilities Act is an important statute that provides a lot of freedom to a lot of Americans. I look forward to helping with that. I've had disabled people in my family, and that's very important to me.
And again, parents have a natural right and a civil right to control their children's education. And so we will continue a lot of the important traditional work. Americans with Disabilities Act is an important statute that provides a lot of freedom to a lot of Americans. I look forward to helping with that. I've had disabled people in my family, and that's very important to me.
But the focus is different. And just saying we're going to enforce the same statutes with a little different focus has made people go crazy.
But the focus is different. And just saying we're going to enforce the same statutes with a little different focus has made people go crazy.
Because they feel like it's their fiefdom and their right to control this one branch of the federal government.
Because they feel like it's their fiefdom and their right to control this one branch of the federal government.
they the, you know, all the nonprofit edifice outside the DOJ, as well as, yes, as well as many career lawyers who believe that it's their way or the highway. And so for the last many years,
they the, you know, all the nonprofit edifice outside the DOJ, as well as, yes, as well as many career lawyers who believe that it's their way or the highway. And so for the last many years,
Civil Rights Division has been used to open investigations on police departments based on, in my opinion, the flimsiest possible basis in many cases, really embarrassing evidence that would not pass muster if you didn't have the bully pulpit of the federal government to bully people into submission. We have opened up investigations into companies like
Civil Rights Division has been used to open investigations on police departments based on, in my opinion, the flimsiest possible basis in many cases, really embarrassing evidence that would not pass muster if you didn't have the bully pulpit of the federal government to bully people into submission. We have opened up investigations into companies like
SpaceX for refusing to hire people who by statute you can't hire, people here on asylum status and others. We have federal laws regarding information security that restrict certain sensitive industries like space and technology to American citizens or people with a permanent basis to be here.
SpaceX for refusing to hire people who by statute you can't hire, people here on asylum status and others. We have federal laws regarding information security that restrict certain sensitive industries like space and technology to American citizens or people with a permanent basis to be here.
So this sort of harassment and people who just, like, send letters for a living, that's not what we're doing in the Civil Rights Division now. We're going to investigate cases, and if those cases are meritorious, we're going to take action. If they're not meritorious, we're going to move on to the next thing. And so this sort of harassment factory is not going to continue.
So this sort of harassment and people who just, like, send letters for a living, that's not what we're doing in the Civil Rights Division now. We're going to investigate cases, and if those cases are meritorious, we're going to take action. If they're not meritorious, we're going to move on to the next thing. And so this sort of harassment factory is not going to continue.
I mean, look, let's be honest. So the Civil Rights Division is created because this country has had a rocky history with civil rights. It's a fact. And I grew up in the Deep South during my hearing I mentioned that when my immigrant family, I was born in India, moved to my hometown in rural North Carolina. My dad was a country orthopedic surgeon there.
I mean, look, let's be honest. So the Civil Rights Division is created because this country has had a rocky history with civil rights. It's a fact. And I grew up in the Deep South during my hearing I mentioned that when my immigrant family, I was born in India, moved to my hometown in rural North Carolina. My dad was a country orthopedic surgeon there.
There were signs on the highway saying the Ku Klux Klan welcomes you to Smithfield, North Carolina. I mean, this is in my lifetime and your lifetime, but it's not there today. That's the point. The point is... We learned from that. We enforced the civil rights. We had desegregation.
There were signs on the highway saying the Ku Klux Klan welcomes you to Smithfield, North Carolina. I mean, this is in my lifetime and your lifetime, but it's not there today. That's the point. The point is... We learned from that. We enforced the civil rights. We had desegregation.
The Civil Rights Division of the Department of Justice is holding on to desegregation consent decrees that are more than 50 years old. So I went in with my team, Michael and others, to do an audit of what's going on here, what's in the deep bowels of this edifice, and find that there are cases from the 1970s and 1960s that need to be dismissed. And so we're going to do that. There's no need for...