At least four leaders of the Civil Rights Division resigned because the section’s head, Harmeet Dhillon, decided not to investigate shooting of Renee Good.
Top leaders of the criminal section of the Civil Rights Division have left their jobs to register their frustration with the department after the Assistant Attorney General for Civil Rights Harmeet Dhillon decided not to investigate the ICE officer’s fatal shooting of Renee Good last week.
The criminal section of the division would normally investigate any fatal shooting by a law enforcement officer and specializes in probing potential or alleged abuse or improper use of force by law enforcement.
The departures – including that of the chief of the section, as well as the principal deputy chief, deputy chief and acting deputy chief – represent the most significant mass resignation at the Justice Department since February. At that time, five leaders and supervisors of the department’s Public Integrity Section, which investigates public officials for possible corruption, resigned rather than comply with an appointee of Donald Trump’s orders to dismiss the bribery case against then-New York mayor Eric Adams.
And they’ll be replaced by sycophants and suck-ups, and it will get even worse.
The good news is that many of these attorneys have formed boutique law firms in DC, each one focusing on different court challenges to MAGA policies, and they’re succeeding.
So every time they lose knowledgeable, experienced people, we gain strength. Worse for them, they weaken by both the loss, and the increase in their virtuosic incompetence.
All resigning does is let them easily replace you with someone that agrees with them.
If you think you need to resign, stay and make them go thru the hassle of firing you. Drag it out, file complaints, get the union.
Even if it’s the same result a year later, that’s a year without one more maga bootlicker doing your job.
If you don’t resign when your job demands you be complicit, at some point you are just following orders.
If you can say “I resign” you can say “this is illegal and I’m not complying”.
This is incredibly shortsighted. It’s the same logic for “why don’t soldiers just refuse illegal orders?”
The reason is that this is real life and not a movie. What do you think happens after you refuse because your think you’re being asked for something illegal? Your boss high fives you and says sorry?
They tell you you are wrong, you either do it or you’re fired with cause and you can say bye bye to any sort of unemployment insurance.
Disagree? Okay bro go prove that in court. I hope you have better lawyers and deeper pockets than the company you’re now litigating with.
I also hope you don’t have any rent, family or need for groceries, because you ain’t getting any money while litigating and looking for a new job.
But yeah. Just refuse bro. Ez. Fascists hate this one simple trick.
Don’t you lose any employment insurance coverage if you quit?
Yes. Unless you can prove a lack of workplace safety or demonstrate that they significantly altered the nature of your position. You can’t make an accountant scrub toilets, for example.
Probably, but on the flip side if you have retirement, you may be remaking it getting fired/discharged (in the military branches anyway).
My personal passive aggressive response to requests for work I disagree with is to drag my feet until it’s either forgotten or too late. It’s worked surprisingly well so far.
Used to work at a company that was selling computer equipment to terrorist organizations. They wanted an engineer to work with compliance to basically, very illegally, “reclassify” components so that they could get them to shady organizations more easily (figured this out after I had already accepted the position).
I could’ve just quit. But then they would’ve found some other engineer to do the work, and probably quite easily (they were paying well).
Instead I just refused to do what they asked of me. Got yelled at, they tried everything possible to get me to quit (moving my desk alone in the warehouse where it was freezing, making up rumors about me, etc). Still, it took them a year to finally find a reason to fire me (and still, it was without cause, so I got unemployment too). That’s 1 year that I wasted for them.
Most companies aren’t going to go through the hassle of firing for cause, because that opens them up to lawsuits. They will likely just take the hit of having to pay into unemployment, and lay you off instead.
It is possible to say No. You might get yelled at and be treated like shit, but at the end of the day, I knew I was doing the right thing. And that’s what’s most important, in my opinion.
People say “well if I say No, they’ll just fire me on the spot”, but have you actually tried to say No? If they do fire you, then make them go through the hassle of firing you, and for fucks sake, fight back!
If I can do it, anyone can do it.
What do you think happens after you refuse because your think you’re being asked for something illegal?
What do I think or what do I know?
I’ve refused orders, been threatened with a legitimate mutiny case, saved people from being sacrificial goats…
If you want to ask questions that’s one thing, but I have no idea where any of your assumptions came from…
Like:
you’re fired with cause and you can say bye bye to any sort of unemployment insurance.
That’s just a wild opinion to have.
Have you ever even met anyone that works for the federal government in any capacity?
Just don’t do the illegal thing
Great advice. Thanks Nancy Reagan.
“Remember kids, Winners don’t do drugs!”
Also, get on the soapbox. Even if you can’t apply social pressure, you can at least inform the people.
Yeah I wouldn’t work under questionable and actively disingenuous leadership, especially if they’re also ethically clashing with mine, so I get their reaction extremely well.
I couldn’t do it, so I can’t expect others to, but it’s a sad and bitter fact that it just leaves more room for the rot to fester.
But I personally think that the more the rot spreads, the more immediate the threat will seem to most, the more obvious the need for change, then perhaps that’ll encourage more action elsewhere. At best, the rot spreads too fast for its own good and ultimately kills the host. Once the ship goes down, the people can get together to rebuild. With more safeguards and more robust systems.
I couldn’t do it,
If you can say “I resign” you can say “this is illegal and I’m not complying”.
You’re assuming there haven’t been personal threats.
No, I just know how well that worked out after the civil war when people bowed to threats from the KKK…
Do you know that there was a progressive and diverse set of politicians in the South after the war till people started resigning due to death threats?
Are you ignorant of history or do you just think shit will be magically different this time?
if the doj won’t bring this asshole to justice, i really hope someone else will.
ICE in general should have really wanted the process to play out, or at least delay public reaction.
This just pisses people off, ups the temperature even more, and incites greater risk than just going through an investigation.
“Top DOJ officials caved to the slightest pressure, derelicted their duties and handed over their power to the fascist regime. America’s dictator will soon appoint more loyalists to their positions.”
Yep. I’ve gotten skewered online for pointing out how these protest resignations do nothing but serves the fascists interests, by opening up the slot to be filled by a loyal SS member.
It is a tradeoff. If they stay where they are, they can slow things down. If they leave and join the good guys, they can help them directly.
Both ways are valuable, but not all people can handle being an infiltrator.
The road to fascism is paved with resignations.
Yes, quit. THAT’LL show em.
Cowards.
- Try to fight the fire; or
- Leave the area to a safe distance
Here, the safe distance may be Australia.
I like how you wanted them to stay, with its strong “some of you may die, and that’s a price I’m willing to pay” vibes.
Without complaining and lashing out, is there a benefit from them resigning?
Can’t be held liable during the next set of Nuremberg trials?
Well, that’s good for them, but what about the American people?
To be fair, the question asked was only, is there a benefit and i did answer that. So, don’t go moving the goal posts!
On a serious note, to answer your question briefly as one of those “American people”: i do sense a change in the air. I don’t think it’s a general strike or civil war, but there’s definitely people paying attention who hadn’t otherwise before. And that engagement? They are pissed.
The long answer is this: Everyone just watched a government agent kill a white mother and then lie about what happened. They see the news coverage spreading that lie. Everyone knows the poem, “First They Came” by Martin Niemöller and with this, they realized we are already 4 lines into it. Racist fucks can’t just hand wave this away as a statistic anymore.
And it’s not like shit is getting any better for us, it’s not like prices are going down! Between the Epstein list shit, Venezuela and Greenland, inflation, shrinkflation, and products being recalled for listeria or lead/metal/glass shavings, now we have masked fat asses terrorizing/killing us then opening lying about it?! And then calling US the terrorists? Nah. That’s not even mentioning the absolutely bat shit levels of corruption happening that’s practically being admitted to right in the open.
So some good news about us. Something i noticed start in 2020 with covid lock downs was that our culture started to shift towards “homesteading” or trying to make everything yourself, because you knew the quality is better than store bought, and in the majority of cases, cheaper. But recently, people have started to go full in, and i think this is the angle where a general strike can foment from!
People DO NOT want corporate slop anymore. There’s a growing want for local businesses, and they will start to come back offering better, locally made items. Sure it’ll be a bit more expensive, but the prices for those lower quality goods are going up too.
This is hopefully going to reduce corporate influence and bring communities closer together, since not every individual can make everything they’ll ever need. With stronger communities, this “fear of the other” dissipates. I’ve started to see it in my neighborhood. As word spreads, more people start to see what is happening. I’ve already been to city and town halls discussing AI data centers and the places are FUCKING PACKED, to the point they move it to larger areas and it’s still over flowing out into the halls and parking lots.
We were already banding together, but every one of their fuck ups, brings us even closer together. Just look at those bad asses in PA; the Black Panthers, resurfacing and showing up for their community. More will come.
2nd am the killers.
Tbf its past time for The People to be in the streets on a general strike. The People need to take responsibility and act.
These individuals held out a good while, not sure how much evil they had to do personally on a daily basis.
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By resigning they’re just making things easier for them. Cowards.
I can’t remember the exact quote but it’s something along the lines of the path to hell is lined with people who stayed and tried to do a good thing in a bad world.
Sometimes all you can do is quit.
Should have done it anyway. Make them publicly fire you for investigating the murder of an American citizen in broad daylight.
Are these the officials of the same doj that has been blocking release of the epstein files?
is it because MAGAT cant hire competantent, lawyers, because they would be poison to thier law firms. so places like texas are making policies to becoming a lawyer more lax.
