Speaking in a recent interview about what she is doing to combat pro-DEI discrimination of the sort that major companies and blue jurisdiction governments are particularly known for such discrimination in the name of “equity” and like concepts, Department of Justice Assistant Attorney General Harmeet K. Dhillon, in charge of the Civil Rights division, spoke about the way the DOJ is going to war with Tim Walz’s Minnesota.
Particularly, she explained that the state has become infamous for discriminating against white Americans and males, with white male Americans being particularly discriminated against by the state’s hiring practices, which is blatantly illegal, according to current DOJ interpretations of Civil Rights law, and so is being punished with a significant lawsuit.
Beginning, she explained that the issue is a massive one, and is by no means confined to Minnesota. She said, “Well, look, Chicago has this, many big cities have it. When I tweeted about Asheville trying to do this, they withdrew their policy. Asheville, North Carolina. It’s like Whack-a-Mole out there.”
Continuing, she described what makes Minnesota different, saying, “But the state of Minnesota has long had this affirmative action regime dating back to the 1960s and 1970s.” She then noted that the problem comes thanks to “a couple of bad Supreme Court precedents that wrongly interpreted Title Seven, the United States Supreme Court, more recently, has held in students for fair admissions and Ames versus Ohio Department of Youth Services that it’s illegal to discriminate against majority people or anybody.”
Building on that, she explained, “So White men have rights just the same as any minority or LGBTQ person, and that’s a very American concept. So we’re going to court. We’ve actually had a very rare situation here where I asked, where I asked Attorney General, then Attorney General, Pam Bondi, to certify that this was a case of national importance.”
She noted the importance of that move, which makes this all the more important, “And if it’s a civil rights case of national importance, it can skip over the appeals court and go directly to the Supreme Court for appeal. So it’s a fast-tracked case, and it’s the first time this provision has been used in decades in recent memory. And so we’re looking forward to litigating this, and we’re looking forward to overturning Minnesota’s illegal discrimination against majority people in employment throughout the state.”
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As background, describing the matter in a press release, the DOJ said, “The Justice Department’s Civil Rights Division filed a lawsuit today against the State of Minnesota challenging Minnesota’s requirement that all state agencies implement sex- and race-based affirmative action plans and consider ‘affirmative action goals on all staffing and personnel decisions.’ The State’s affirmative action program directs agencies to engage in employment practices that ‘balance’ the sex and race composition of its workforce with the civilian labor force.”
Further, the press release described what is going on in Minnesota that is so illegal, saying that the lawsuit the DOJ has brought “alleges that this affirmative action mandate discriminates against, limits, and classifies employees and prospective employees on the basis of their race and sex in violation of Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 (Title VII). ‘Because staffing is a zero-sum game,’ the complaint states, ‘when Minnesota gives preferences to employees or prospective employees on the basis of their race, color, national origin, and sex, it inevitably and necessarily discriminates against other employees or prospective employees because of their race, color, national origin, and sex.’”