Trump's DOJ Wants Segregated Schools

Gary Wright II — Thu, 27 Nov 2025 11:39:18 -0500

The DOJ is fighting to have civil-rights era cases dismissed in an effort to segregate the schools again. They have claimed that racism no longer exists, and so those landmark cases are no longer necessary.

The Heritage Foundation wrote Project 2025, which the Trump administration has being using as their playbook. They have completely dismantled the Department of Education in an effort to turn the responsibility of schools back to the states. There's so many problems with that plan, not to mention the states can't afford it. Another huge problem is that many states aren't planning to offer the same civil rights protections to racial minorities and the disabled that were guaranteed by the federal government.

The Department of Justice is supposed to be fighting for those protections, but instead they're trying to remove them. The DOJ Civil Rights Division's new focus falls into three main areas: gun rights, religious freedom rights, and investigating the persecution of White people. The last two areas are closely related, because they are promoting Christian Nationalism, which is a racist and perverted interpretation of religion.

The latest DOJ legal moves have been focused on the State of Louisiana, where state officials have been trying to overturn those old civil rights cases. Instead of DOJ fighting to preserve the hard-earned protections, they are now fighting to remove them by claiming they are a federal intrusion into local school decisions. Dozens of those cases are still open or still have effective orders because the states have never fully accomplished de-segregation.

The DOJ lifted a 1966 order in Louisiana's Plaquemines Parish school district, and now they're trying to dismiss a 1965 case against the Concordia Parish school system in central Louisiana that was filed by Black families who were trying to gain access to the all-white school system.

Since the two (normally) opposing parties of the state and federal government are agreeing to have the case dismissed, that's usually what would have happened. Thankfully, Federal District Judge Dee Drell has rejected that idea. The judge wrote: “At the heart of this case is public policy and the protection of others, and the court has been tasked with ensuring the resolution of this matter in accordance with long established legal precedent." Judge Drell offered Concordia Parish a hearing to prove it has fully dismantled the state-sponsored racial segregation. On Tuesday, they appealed that order.

I can't believe that decades later, we are still having to re-fight these same battles. But here we are... Here's the court docket for Smith v. Concordia Parish (Case #1:65-cv-11577) that started in 1965 and is still ongoing:
https://www.courtlistener.com/docket/6105774/smith-v-concordia-parish/?order_by=desc

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