Remember when President Trump promised to “drain the swamp”? Well, it’s happening faster than anyone could have imagined. Since returning to the White House, Trump’s team has been on a mission to clean house across federal agencies, removing bureaucrats who spent years pushing progressive agendas rather than serving the American people. In some departments, Trump officials have literally had to escort resistant employees out of their offices! Talk about a dramatic changing of the guard.

But in one particular progressive stronghold, something even more remarkable is happening. The swamp creatures aren’t waiting to be escorted out – they’re voluntarily swimming away!

The Great Legal Migration: Swamp Draining Itself

The Department of Justice’s Civil Rights Division – long considered one of the most progressive sectors of the federal government – is experiencing a mass exodus. According to reports, hundreds of attorneys have decided to quit rather than work under the Trump administration’s new priorities. That’s right – these lawyers are essentially draining themselves from the swamp!

From ‘Breitbart News’:

“Now, over 100 attorneys decided that they’d rather not do what their job requires them to do, and I think that’s fine,” Harmeet K. Dhillon, the new head of the division, said in an interview with the conservative commentator Glenn Beck over the weekend, welcoming the turnover and making plain the division’s priorities.

Dhillon, Trump’s appointee to lead the Civil Rights Division, isn’t exactly begging these attorneys to stay. In fact, she welcomes their departure, noting that many had placed political activism above their actual job duties – which is to enforce federal civil rights laws, not push a partisan agenda.

When “Equal Protection” Meant “Political Selection”

What many Americans don’t realize is just how thoroughly politicized the Civil Rights Division had become under previous Democratic administrations. During the Biden years, the division launched politically motivated lawsuits against Republican-led states while turning a blind eye to genuine civil rights concerns.

Remember the wave of antisemitism that swept across American college campuses after the Hamas terror attacks on October 7, 2023? The Civil Rights Division, which is supposed to protect all Americans from discrimination, did absolutely nothing. They were too busy filing lawsuits against Georgia’s voting integrity laws – laws that were actually less restrictive than those in some Democrat-run states!

This pattern of selective enforcement wasn’t new. Under the Obama administration, Attorney General Eric Holder and Civil Rights Division Chief Tom Perez infamously dropped an open-and-shut case against the New Black Panther Party for intimidating voters in Philadelphia during the 2008 election. Members had shown up at polling places with nightsticks, threatening white voters – but apparently, that didn’t qualify as a civil rights violation worth pursuing.

From Woke Warriors to Job Descriptions: The Great Reset

The mass departure of attorneys who prioritized progressive ideology over equal application of the law represents a turning point for the Justice Department. Under Dhillon’s leadership, the Civil Rights Division will return to its core mission: protecting the constitutional rights of all Americans, regardless of political affiliation.

“The job here is to enforce the federal civil rights laws, not woke ideology,” Dhillon explained. What a refreshing change from the previous administration, where Attorney General Merrick Garland and DOJ Civil Rights Division chief Kristen Clarke remained conspicuously silent as Jewish students faced harassment and discrimination on campuses nationwide.

Perhaps the most telling aspect of this story is that no one needed to force these lawyers out. They chose to leave rather than fulfill their basic job responsibilities without a partisan lens. If that doesn’t confirm just how deeply politicized our institutions had become, nothing will.

Key Takeaways:

• Hundreds of lawyers are voluntarily leaving the DOJ’s Civil Rights Division rather than enforce laws impartially under the Trump administration
• The division had previously focused on partisan litigation while ignoring legitimate civil rights issues like campus antisemitism
• New division head Harmeet Dhillon welcomes the turnover, emphasizing that the division’s job is “to enforce federal civil rights laws, not woke ideology”

Sources: Breitbart