{"id":1003250,"date":"2019-01-03T11:16:20","date_gmt":"2019-01-03T15:16:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/democrats.org\/?p=1003250"},"modified":"2024-05-23T20:11:46","modified_gmt":"2024-05-23T20:11:46","slug":"dnc-on-trumps-attack-on-civil-rights-law","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/democrats.org\/news\/dnc-on-trumps-attack-on-civil-rights-law\/","title":{"rendered":"DNC on Trump\u2019s Attack on Civil Rights Law"},"content":{"rendered":"<p dir=\"ltr\">DNC Chair and former head of the Justice Department\u2019s Civil Rights Division Tom Perez released the following statement in response to reports that the Trump administration is considering a far-reaching rollback of anti-discrimination rules:<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">\u201cThis rollback would be a disgrace to the Justice Department\u2019s mission and our nation\u2019s values. Under President Obama, we actually fought for the civil rights of all Americans. Now Donald Trump wants to take a hatchet to the rules that protect millions of Americans from discrimination in education, housing, employment, and other areas. It is an undeniable fact that systemic racism exists and will persist and grow if we fail to fight it. We cannot allow this administration to turn our federal government into an agent of discrimination, and we must uphold the rule of law and our values of equality and justice for all.\u201d<\/p>\n<div class=\"yj6qo\"><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>DNC Chair and former head of the Justice Department\u2019s Civil Rights Division Tom Perez released the following statement in response to reports that the Trump administration is considering a far-reaching rollback of anti-discrimination rules: &nbsp; \u201cThis rollback would be a disgrace to the Justice Department\u2019s mission and our nation\u2019s values. Under President Obama, we actually [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":263,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1003250","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-press-release"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v26.0 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>DNC on Trump\u2019s Attack on Civil Rights Law - Democrats<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/democrats.org\/news\/dnc-on-trumps-attack-on-civil-rights-law\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Democrats\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2019-01-03T15:16:20+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2024-05-23T20:11:46+00:00\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"Claire DePree\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"Claire DePree\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"1 minute\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/democrats.org\/news\/dnc-on-trumps-attack-on-civil-rights-law\/\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/democrats.org\/news\/dnc-on-trumps-attack-on-civil-rights-law\/\",\"name\":\"DNC on Trump\u2019s Attack on Civil Rights Law - 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