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The Civil Rights Division of the Department of Justice was founded in 1957 to ensure fairness in a union struggling to become more perfect. Yet somewhere along the way, bad actors saw an opportunity to play with the scales while Justice donned her blindfold. Our new Assistant Attorney General of the division is Ricochet's dear friend Harmeet Dhillon — and she's back to remind Americans that Justice has an enforcement arm.
Harmeet gets us up to speed on her team's investigation into the latest riot at UC Berkeley; reports on how they've handled the workload with only one-third of the manpower; and reiterates the righteousness of the division's purpose while clarifying how she and the ambitious lawyers under her plan to balance the scales on a level playing field.
James, Steve, and Peter weigh the president's approval numbers on the economy and foreign policy, and they have reason to believe that Democrats will continue to be hardest hit as Epstein files work their way to the public.
[Attention prospective Ricochet members! James Lileks has a secret Thanksgiving code that'll get you a 50% discount on your first year at Ricochet. Tune in for details!]
Sound clip from this week's open: TPUSA spokesman Andrew Kolvet explains how UC Berkeley administrators worked to undermine their event last week.
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It's either "boomerang" or "Formica" . . .
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Her attitude and approach to her mission is why I voted for Trump. You “Republicans” running this podcast better sue up and realize that Trump and his way is the future of the party and there is no way an old school R, especially those with no clue about “affordability” - Steve is right! and no clue about how the most important of most importants is rule of law, and Immigration law is a great place to start.
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She is impressive and appears to be the only one doing a solid job at the Dept of Justice right now.
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I get the feeling listening to people that many are under the impression that Civil Rights ONLY apply to black people.
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I was a sophomore at UC Berkeley at the time of the “Free Speech Movement” in 1964. The initial cause was quite trivial: the attempt by the administration, having reclaimed its authority over the area in front of Sather Gate, to restrict political activity. The more fundamental issue was the sheer immensity of the UC system, cold and impersonal. One sat in lectures delivered by “famous” professors, who handed off the rest of their teaching duties to TAs, most of whom were far more concerned about finishing their dissertations than interacting with students or carefully grading their work. Vilified Clark Kerr, the then president, was, ironically enough, an old-fashioned liberal. A grimmer irony is that the only real victor in the upheaval was the administration, which, for all the supposed concessions, became all the more high-handed and opaque—and yet, at the same time, spineless in the face thuggery…A sign held up at the latest demonstration of Berkeley madness: “Look like a fascist. Walk like a fascist. Die like a fascist.” That is not what Mario Savio had in mind.
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