Trump pushes civil rights enforcement to the states

[BumRushDaShow]

Source: Politico

06/27/2026 03:00 PM EDT


President Donald Trump’s decision to gut the federal office charged with protecting students from discrimination is creating new responsibilities for states that aren’t ready to take them up.

Amid mass layoffs of government employees and Trump’s efforts to dismantle the Education Department, the agency shuttered seven of its 12 regional Office for Civil Rights branches that families turned to when they felt their rights were violated. That pullback is starting to expose the gaps students will have to navigate after states spent decades shaping their anti-discrimination policies assuming the federal government would handle it.

Some states, including Maryland and Pennsylvania, have well-funded civil rights commissions capable of investigating complaints but don’t have the authority to step in. And many state education agencies, like those in Mississippi and in Arizona, are directing families to take discrimination complaints to the federal government.

Trump has tied the moves to his quest to return “education back to the states where it belongs” — a theme visible in other areas the federal government has traditionally taken responsibility for, like disaster relief. But the existing patchwork of state-level enforcement powers against discrimination risks leaving some students without protection.

Read more: https://www.politico.com/news/2026/06/27/trump-civil-rights-states-discrimination-00969872

[IrishAfricanAmerican]

1. Can the drinking fountains and lunch counters be far off???

[IronLionZion]

2. MAGA was always about taking us backwards

Good luck to DUers in red states

[King_Klonopin]

3. How do you begin to respond to this kind of nonsense?

The level of denial leaves a person apoplectic
How do you respond to people who act as though adherence to the concepts of reality and history were optional,
or that these are concepts which can be defined by one's own subjective belief system -- no matter how warped?

"States Rights" -- the code word for Jim Crow and legalized racism -- was the reason why we had to enact
FEDERAL LAWS to protect voter rights.

Is there a person alive who believes this bullshit is "justice" under the laws of our Constitution?
Does anyone who is not delusional, in a total psychotic state, truly believe that Alabama and Mississippi would
lift a finger to enforce any law that protects minority voters?
Is there a person in the country who has not seen the movie "Mississippi Burning"?

The damage caused by the SCOTUS in the last 10 years has erased 80 years of progress for the civil rights movement.
They have undermined every law designed to protect any underclass of citizens from being oppressed.
Progress for equal rights is always arduously slow, while regression seems to happen in a flash.
They have taken the country so far backwards that it would take another 80 years just to get back to where we were
before all this Trumpian, MAGA, dystopian madness began.

Their voter-protection laws are racist.
Their immigration policies are racist.
Their foreign policy is racist.
Their for-profit prisons are racist.
Their Federal Agencies, like ICE and DHS, are racist.
Their echo-chambers and news outlets are racist.
Their Supreme Court is racist.
Their political rhetoric is racist.
Their hatred towards all things "Obama" is racist.
Their beloved, fearless, cult-leader is a blatant and unabashed racist. (and sexist)
Even their brand of religion is racist!