Saying that Trump administration is Sabatov Civil Rights Department of Education, Federal lawsuit filed on Friday morning He seeks to stop the President and Linda Secretary of Linda McMahon from the implementation of the mass shooting of investigators and lawyers of civil rights.
Two parents and councils of parental lawyers and lawyers, a national disability group, jointly filed a lawsuit. It states that the reduction of the cabinet of the Ministry of Civil Rights will not allow the agency to be able to cope with the public complaints about discrimination at the school. This, according to them, will violate the provision on equal protection of the fifth amendment to the US Constitution.
The complaint comes three days after the Education Department reported about 1300 employees – including the whole Staff at seven of the 12 regional civil rights offices – They were fired, and the day after a group of 21 Democratic lawyers sued McMachon and the president. This lawsuit states that the Trump administration has no powers to bypass Congress to close the department effectively.
The complaint filed on Friday claims that “OCR has abandoned its responsibility for fulfilling civil rights defense” and that the administration made a “sabotage decision” functioning from the Education Department. This lawsuit states that the Congress’ powers are abolished. He calls the education department, McMahon and acting OCR head, Craig coach.
“Thanks to a number of press releases, political statements and executive orders, the administration made a clear contempt for civil rights of marginalized students,” the lawsuit said.
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The parents’ lawsuit was filed with the US District Court in the District of Columbia. He asks the court to declare the “scenery” of the OCR illegal and is looking for a ban to force the office to “process OCR complaints promptly and fairly”.
A representative of the education department did not immediately respond to a request for comment. But the department stated that he would still fulfill his legal obligations.
The lawyer’s lawyer’s lawyer was filed with the Federal Court in Massachusetts. It states that the shooting is “so serious and extreme that the disabled components of the department responsible for the performance of the functions provided for by the charter.” As an example, he refers to the closure of the seven regional OCR.
Each year, OCR is investigating thousands of discrimination in schools based on disability, race and gender and is one of the largest federal government units. Finally, there were about 550 OCR employees; At least 243 trade union officers were laid on Tuesday.
The administration plans to close OCR locations in Boston, Chicago, Cleveland, Dallas, New York, Philadelphia and San Francisco. Offices will remain in Atlanta, Denver, Kansas -Sity, Seattle and Washington, Colombia county
The lawsuit provided by the parents and the propaganda group shows the concern of students and families who are not investigating the complaints under President Donald Trump. There are also problems that new complaints will not be investigated if they do not fall under one of the president’s priorities: restraint of anti -Semitism, the cessation of transgender athletes in women’s sports and fight against alleged discrimination against white students.
Once Trump was opened on January 20, administration implemented monthly freezing About the work of civil rights of the agency. Despite the fact that the OCR investigators were forbidden to work on the designated discrimination affairs, the Trump administration has launched a new “End Dei Portal”, which meant only to collect complaints about diversity, justice and inclusion in schools. It states that he was trying to reduce the size of the government, including the education department that Trump called “great work”.
Trump’s actions have so far forced many to wonder: “Is there a real and meaningful process of investigating complaints that exists at the moment,” said Jonathan Smith, lawyer of the National Center for Youth Legislation. Smith is a former Deputy Assistant Prosecutor General in the US civil rights department.
“They put the thumb on the scale of the winners and lost before the investigation, and this is deeply problematic in terms of law enforcement,” Smith said.
The lawsuit is, apparently NAACP sued the agency In order for the segregation to continue. This lawsuit provided a repeated overhaul of OCR and 20 years of judicial supervision, in order to ensure that the division is quite investigated and forced discrimination lawsuits.
Students and families turn to OCR after they feel that their problems have not been solved in schools and colleges. Both persons named in the lawsuit are parents of students whose complaints about civil rights were investigated – until Trump has taken office.
One of the plaintiffs, Alabama Nick’s Father S. Carter, has three students and is a supporter of students with disabilities in her community. Carter black. According to the lawsuit, Carter filed a complaint to OCR in 2022, claiming that discrimination based on the race after the school district of children, city schools Demopolis, twice forbade Carter from the school district.
When he reached the propublica, the district head stated that he did not know about the lawsuit or the complaint of civil rights and could not comment; He is a newcomer in the area.
District said This banned the card after confrontation with a white employee. But Carter stated that the white father, who had such a confrontation, was not forbidden, which made her believe that the county punished her from her propaganda. She said it prevented her from attending parent conferences and other school events.
The second parent identified by the AW initials filed a complaint to OCR, claiming that their child’s school did not respond properly to sexual abuse and persecution of a classmate.
According to the trial, investigations of complaints about discrimination against both families stopped in accordance with the new OCR leadership.
