DeSantis: My DOJ Will Prosecute Diversity Initiatives

Florida Politics reports:

If Ron DeSantis becomes President, the Department of Justice Civil Rights Division would have a new task. The Florida Governor and 2024 Republican candidate told radio host Hugh Hewitt the Justice Department would branch out its understanding of civil rights to “do all discrimination” as part of “taking some of these agencies and making sure they’re actually doing the things that we would want.”

One of those “things,” DeSantis noted, would be going after diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI) initiatives. “For example, like the Civil Rights Division, our Civil Rights Division in Justice will do all discrimination,” DeSantis promised. Much of the DOJ Civil Rights Division’s recent work includes targeting hate crimes, discrimination in prison and employer abuses of immigrants

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.@RonDeSantis would sic @TheJusticeDept @CivilRights division on DEI, ‘making sure they’re doing the things that we want’

Reporting by @AGGancarskihttps://t.co/RySkzjGXw7#FlaPol

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