Today in the Neoconfederate Reign at the DOJ
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Attorney General Jeff Sessions ordered Justice Department officials to review reform agreements with troubled police forces nationwide, saying it was necessary to ensure that these pacts do not work against the Trump administration’s goals of promoting officer safety and morale while fighting violent crime.
In a two-page memo released Monday, Sessions said agreements reached previously between the department’s civil rights division and local police departments — a key legacy of the Obama administration — will be subject to review by his two top deputies, throwing into question whether all of the agreements will stay in place.
The memo was released not long before the department’s civil rights lawyers asked a federal judge to postpone until at least the end of June a hearing on a sweeping police reform agreement, known as a consent decree, with the Baltimore Police Department that was announced just days before President Trump took office.
Elections have consequences. When Republicans win, they’re pretty much all negative. This was always going to be one of the worst. I’ll delegate the punchline:
"hold on a second I just gotta make sure this shit is racist enough" https://t.co/2v9qxgg4Ve pic.twitter.com/Lgc1OvBeVT
— Ashley Feinberg (@ashleyfeinberg) April 4, 2017