The Justice Department is asking its civil rights lawyers to temporarily join the Trump administration’s “priority work” of fighting antisemitism at universities and discrimination in college admissions.
The department’s Civil Rights Division, which enforces antidiscrimination laws, is looking for up to five lawyers from other parts of the division to join the educational opportunities section on a four-month detail, according to a recent internal posting viewed by Bloomberg Law.
This section “has a surge staffing need to address Administration priority work in combating antisemitism in schools, Title IX, and discriminatory college admissions practices,” the memo says. Title IX prohibits sex-based ...
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