The Emperor's Enforcers -- Digby

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https://digbysblog.net/2025/06/27/the-emperors-enforcers/

They are using the civil rights laws to strengthen white supremacy

They have forced out a university president over a bogus charge that it was discriminating against white people. In Virginia:

The University of Virginia’s president, James E. Ryan, has told the board overseeing the school that he will resign in the face of demands by the Trump administration that he step aside to help resolve a Justice Department inquiry into the school’s diversity, equity and inclusion efforts, according to three people briefed on the matter.

For the leader of one of the nation’s most prominent public universities to take such an extraordinary step demonstrates President Trump’s success in harnessing the investigative powers of the federal government to accomplish his administration’s policy goals.

The New York Times reported on Thursday evening that the Justice Department had demanded Mr. Ryan’s resignation as a condition to settle a civil rights investigation into the school’s diversity practices.

In a letter sent on Thursday to the head of the board overseeing the university, Mr. Ryan said that he had planned to step down at the end of the next academic year but “given the circumstances and today’s conversations” he had decided, “with deep sadness,” to tender his resignation now, according to one of the people familiar with the matter who was briefed on the contents of the letter.

The school’s board has accepted Mr. Ryan’s resignation, according to two of the people briefed on the matter.

It was unclear when Mr. Ryan would leave his post. He said in his letter to the head of the board that his resignation could be effective immediately but “no later than Aug. 15, 2025,” according to the person briefed on the letter. […]

Ten days ago, the Justice Department issued a stern warning to the board overseeing the University of Virginia that the school needed to act quickly. The department informed the college of multiple complaints of race-based treatment on campus, and of the government’s conclusion that the use of race in admissions and other student benefits were “widespread practices throughout every component and facet of the institution.”

He should not have resigned. This is exactly the sort of thing that should be fought all the way. But once again, we have capitulation from elites who apparently think they can appease the voracious appetites of the MAGA revolutionaries who literally want to go back to a pre-civil war status quo. They will not stop.

UVA, by the way, is in Charlottesville. We all know what happened there in Trump’s first term. It looks like the “very fine people” he’s put into his Justice Department are finally giving those marchers their day.