Trump’s Next Move? Potentially Undermining Civil RightsThe Trump-produced government shutd

Trump’s Next Move? Potentially Undermining Civil Rights

TheTrump-produced government shutdown stretched past the 30-day mark, and during that time, America’s most critical government departments were left in disarray. The withholding of employee salaries in the Transportation Security Administration has thrown some airports into chaos, a lapse of funding at the Food and Drug Administration resulted in a decreased number of food inspections, and minimally supervised national parks and monuments were greatly damaged by tourists.

The government has been reopened (for the next three weeks, at least), and it’s still unclear which restoration the Trump administration will prioritize first. The Department of Justice, however, has reportedly been informed of what the president apparently wants it to tackle next: a scaling back of civil rights.

According to The Washington Post, a recent internal Justice Department memo instructed senior civil rights officials to explore how a tool of nondiscrimination enforcement called “disparate impact” may be changed or removed from “their area of expertise.”

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