The media meltdown over the Trump administration’s restructuring of the Justice Department’s Civil Rights Division tells you all you need to know: it’s a necessary and overdue correction.

NBC News and other outlets are breathlessly reporting that Trump’s team, led by Assistant Attorney General Harmeet Dhillon, has reoriented the Civil Rights Division to focus on issues like keeping men out of women's sports, ending radical indoctrination in K-12 education, and defending Americans, including Christians, against discrimination.

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The professional left is calling it a “bloodbath.” Former bureaucrats are lamenting that the division has been “completely refocused.” Good. That’s the point.

"Civil Rights" Has Been Turned Into a Weapon

For years now, the term “civil rights” has been weaponized by the radical left. What was once about ensuring basic equality has morphed into a political cudgel used to target Christians, undermine women’s sports, and blur the meaning of words like “discrimination” beyond recognition. Civil rights laws were intended to ensure fairness, not to create a hierarchy where certain groups are favored while others are trampled.

Under the Biden administration, the Civil Rights Division became an engine for the far left’s social agenda, aggressively targeting police departments, promoting gender ideology, and even weaponizing the law against Christian Americans. What Dhillon and the Trump administration are doing isn’t an abandonment of civil rights — it’s a return to what civil rights are actually supposed to mean: protecting the constitutional rights of all Americans, not just the favored groups of the day.

Bureaucrats Don't Set Policy — The President Does

Another theme running through the establishment media's reporting is that career government lawyers are upset that their priorities have changed. To which I say: welcome to democracy. Bureaucrats (yes, even government lawyers) work at the pleasure of the President. They don't get to set national policy. The President does. That’s how our system works.

The complaints you’re hearing from these so-called “career civil servants” boil down to one thing: they don’t like that the voters elected someone who doesn’t share their priorities. They’re not neutral. They’re political actors, upset that the political winds have shifted against them.

Which laws is the Civil Rights division enforcing when they protect cross dressing men in women’s bathrooms? Which laws is the Civil Rights division enforcing when companies adopt hiring practices based on skin color or sexual preference and identity? Maybe a change was needed.

— Steve W (@gr8giants) April 24, 2025

President Trump was elected — and re-elected — with a mandate to tackle this exact problem: an unelected, unaccountable administrative state that believes it knows better than the American people. Reclaiming the Civil Rights Division from far-left activists is part of fulfilling that mandate.

Americans Are Tired of the Radical Redefinition of Rights

At the heart of these reforms is something basic: Americans are sick of being told that defending biological women’s sports is bigotry. They’re tired of Christians being targeted by the same people who claim to champion "rights." They’re exhausted by bureaucrats using federal law as a bludgeon to reshape American culture in ways no legislature ever voted for.

What the Trump administration is doing isn’t radical. It’s restoring balance. It’s saying that civil rights are for everyone, not just for the politically favored classes. It’s reminding bureaucrats that their job is to enforce the law as written, not to invent new rights or agendas out of thin air.

The hand-wringing from NBC News and career DOJ employees proves that Trump’s team is hitting the right nerve. If this is what a “bloodbath” looks like inside the federal bureaucracy, we could use a lot more of it.

Trump Is Keeping His Promise

In 2016 and again in 2024, Americans elected Donald Trump because they were tired of watching their country be run by unelected elites who thought they knew better. Reining in a runaway Civil Rights Division that has been hijacked by radical ideology is a good step toward fulfilling the promises he made.

I looove this... This is exactly what I voted for https://t.co/6Eyd2E0dwJ

— Jennifer Van Laar (@jenvanlaar) April 26, 2025

It's long past time we had a Civil Rights Division that protects all Americans, not just the politically connected ones. The Trump administration deserves credit for standing up to the bureaucratic swamp and fighting for the voters who put them there.