FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Contact: Patrick McNeil, [email protected]
WASHINGTON — Maya Wiley, president and CEO of The Management Convention on Civil and Human Rights, issued the next assertion after the Senate confirmed Pam Bondi to function legal professional basic of the USA:
“Senators who voted to verify Pam Bondi to steer the nation’s signature company for the enforcement of our federal legal guidelines — together with our civil rights legal guidelines — and to ship neutral justice have made a grave mistake. We have to be clear: The regressive agenda threatened by Undertaking 2025 to upend our civil rights protections and switch the Division of Justice from a defend to a weapon is underway. Ms. Bondi’s anti-civil rights background, report of election denial, and unflinching loyalty to the president make her unfit to steer the Division of Justice. At this vital time for our democracy, the American folks deserve an legal professional basic who’s honest and impartial, who will defend the Structure, and who will stand as much as any highly effective particular person’s violations of the regulation, even when that particular person is a pal to a sitting president. It’s a place that will need to have public belief and never function a president’s private weapon to abuse his energy. And critically, it’s speculated to be within the enterprise of defending the civil rights of all, not the prerogatives of the tremendous wealthy. The burden now falls to Ms. Bondi to show she is going to obey the oath of workplace and may really function the folks’s lawyer.
“For 75 years, The Management Convention on Civil and Human Rights has labored to move federal civil rights legal guidelines which have sought to ban discrimination, enhance folks’s lives, and advance justice and equality for all of the folks of our nation. We now have additionally labored to make sure these legal guidelines are meaningfully carried out and enforced, and that features combating for an legal professional basic and DOJ that’s dedicated to faithfully implementing the nation’s landmark civil rights statutes and defending all communities, not an legal professional basic who will weaponize the DOJ to faithfully implement Undertaking 2025. Our work doesn’t finish now. Regardless of right this moment’s vote, our values and our quest for justice will prevail. Our coalition will proceed to combat for the rights and freedoms of all folks and will likely be watching how the DOJ now proceeds beneath Lawyer Common Bondi.
“Immediately’s affirmation additionally raises the stakes for different DOJ nominees, together with the nomination of Kash Patel to steer the FBI and Harmeet Dhillon to steer the Civil Rights Division. The Management Convention calls on senators to oppose these nominees and make sure that anybody confirmed to vital positions on the DOJ will honor and take critically the division’s civil rights tasks.”
The Management Convention, joined by 93 different nationwide organizations, wrote to the Senate in robust opposition to Ms. Bondi’s affirmation. Learn the letter right here. For extra on Undertaking 2025 and its plan to weaponize the DOJ, click on right here.
The Management Convention on Civil and Human Rights is a coalition charged by its numerous membership of greater than 240 nationwide organizations to advertise and shield the rights of all individuals in the USA. The Management Convention works towards an America pretty much as good as its beliefs. For extra data on The Management Convention and its member organizations, go to www.civilrights.org.
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