In a new interview released on Thursday, Assistant U.S. Attorney General in the DOJ’s Civil Rights division, Harmeet Dhillon, gave her take on the Justice Department filing suit this week against Orange County, California, for allegedly failing to uphold U.S. voter laws. I’ll get to that in a minute.
Of course, the team in the DOJ can walk and chew gum at the same time. Case in point (no pun intended), as my colleague Katie Jerkovich wrote just over a week back, the department agreed to take up the legal situation of a Washington state coach whose employer (Washington State U.) allegedly fired him because he refused to take the COVID shot on religious grounds.
It comes just one day after the Trump Department of Education and ED Secretary Linda McMahon told California its schools are not holding up their end of the bargain on following Title IX, in providing fairness in sports for girls and in women’s spaces:
In the press release posted on X, the Department of Education announced that the state, led by Democratic Governor Gavin Newsom, violated Title IX.
The Department’s Office for Civil Rights has concluded its Title IX investigations into “California’s Department of Education & Interscholastic Federation and found both clearly violated Title IX by failing to protect women & girls from sex-based discrimination,” the post read.