Posted on Thursday, July 17, 2025
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by AMAC, Robert B. Charles
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Occasionally, I ponder the bullet we dodged, what might have been – the Harris-Walz mess – and breathe a sigh of relief. My mind flashes to Harris’s word salad, ease with untruth, and then to the other part of that dystopian duo, Tim Walz.
Last week, the Justice Department opened an investigation into the illustrious Governor’s alternate universe, his penchant for redefining reality, the coach who was not what he said, the military hero who was not, just Dim Tim, the fab fake.
What they are looking into is not about him personally, but – as in states like Maine – what happens when an arrogant, agenda-driven governor redefines civil rights in ways that strip a block of citizens of their federally assured rights.
What Walz did, by all appearances, is to engage in “race- and sex-based discrimination in its state employment hiring practices” by demanding that the State’s Department of Human Services (DHS) advance the cause of prejudice.
Rather than non-discriminatory hiring, in concert with long-established federal laws protecting civil rights, Minnesota decided to tweak the system, push their own version of prejudice, just like Maine’s Democrat governor twisted federal law to discriminate against girls in sports, effectively redefining Title IX against girls.
In Minnesota, the game is played a little differently. They have a new policy – watch out in Maine – demanding supervisors “provide a hiring justification when seeking to hire a non-underrepresented candidate when hiring for a vacancy in a job category with underrepresentation,” or get terminated.
So, the “Diversity, Equity, Inclusion” (DEI) agenda, modeled on the Marxist idea that rights go to groups, not individuals, and that one group can be punished on behalf of benefits for another group, is being mandated.
As the Justice Department explained, that is not how the federal law works, the guarantee of individual liberties and civil rights. “Minnesotans deserve to have their state government employees hired based on merit, not based on illegal DEI,” as Attorney General Pam Bondi put it.
“Federal law has long prohibited employment policies that discriminate based on race or sex,” said Assistant Attorney General for Civil Rights Harmeet Dhillon.
So, “the Justice Department refuses to tolerate such conduct, and states invite investigation when they engage in biased hiring practices tied to protected characteristics.”
In truth, there is never justification for discrimination in hiring. Minnesota – like Maine – is claiming discriminatory policies are justified under state laws, which they assert take precedence over federal civil rights, which they do not.
How this investigation ultimately plays out, like the fight that Maine’s Governor Mills insists on having with Trump over established civil rights laws, seems almost foregone. The Democrats will lose. Federal civil rights laws are not negotiable.
Maybe the bigger takeaway is that Trump is reasserting the importance of civil rights, and that means states across the country – many of which felt empowered under Biden to trample on individual rights – will not be able to do so.
All this follows a May decision by Trump’s Justice Department to put these wildly twisted state decisions and political agendas that push discrimination in their place.
In late May, Justice announced they will “utilize the False Claims Act to investigate and, as appropriate, pursue claims against any recipient of federal funds that knowingly violates federal civil rights laws” – including states, “universities, federal contractors, and other federal funding recipients that “adhere to racist policies and preferences” and thus “knowingly violate federal civil rights laws.”
Big change happens when wrongs are discovered, the will to make things right exists, and leaders act. Trump is doing that, reasserting truth, justice, and civil rights. Harris-Walz never would. Now…we need that kind of action in Maine.
Robert Charles is a former Assistant Secretary of State under Colin Powell, former Reagan and Bush 41 White House staffer, attorney, and naval intelligence officer (USNR). He wrote “Narcotics and Terrorism” (2003), “Eagles and Evergreens” (2018), and is National Spokesman for AMAC. Robert Charles has also just released an uplifting new book, “Cherish America: Stories of Courage, Character, and Kindness” (Tower Publishing, 2024).
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