How did the Ministry of Justice talk about legalizing racist hiring in Cob, Georgia, before Trump – Daily Signal entered

If you want to see an excellent example of the lawlessness of the Civil Rights Division under the Ministry of Justice of Merick Garland, do not look further than the “Decree of Consent” with Cob, Georgia, this doj tried to sneak before the Trump administration before The Trump administration before the Trump administration took over.

The consent decree aims to institutionalize racial discrimination in the hiring and promotions practices within the local government fire service.

Fortunately for the interests of justice and the residents of the Cob County, who depend on the fact that they have competent firefighters to protect them, a federal judge in the northern district of Georgia, William M., stopped this abuse of maneuver only four days before The common sense of returning to The Federal Government and the deactivization of the Law Division began. Ray denied the joint proposal submitted by DOJ and COBB County to approve the proposed order of consent.

In this way, the judge stopped a pernicious conspiracy.

Decree of consent is essentially agreements between the two parties in a case to settle the court dispute. They must be approved by the judge who monitors the case and the judges rarely do not approve of such an agreement. Judges usually jump in the opportunity to bring out a case from their do with their docks, thus reducing their workload. Too often, they just rubber seal they agreed.

But this did not happen with Ray, who served in the Georgia Court of Appeal, before being appointed by President Donald Trump in 2018 as a federal judge. Residents of Cob County, who need fire protection, should be grateful for this.

Cobb County is the third largest county in Georgia by population and is north of the Atlanta in Sofia. Kob County was a highly political republican district, but now it is a majority of Democrat District, with Democrats controlling three of the five district committee places at the end of 2024.

As Ray explains in his order of January 16, 2025, the Ministry of Justice filed a lawsuit against Cob County in May 2024. Doj claims that the fire service was engaged in racial discrimination for the use of a “written exam and a credit check for screening and choice to candidates for firefighter positions. “The fire service stopped using the credit check after 2020, but the DOJ still filed a case, claiming that the use of the exam and the previous loan check had” an inadmissible effect on African-American candidates. “

The political left has long attacked the use of credit checks by employers, claiming that they are discriminatory without suggesting evidence to support such claims. They are a rational, reasonable check of employers so as not to be exposed to potential responsibility for financial and other poor behavior by employees. Objective written exams designed to test the competence of candidates in their field have long been attacked, even when there is no evidence of deliberate discrimination in the design of those tests that would justify these attacks.

This is the situation here. The Ministry of Justice has never presented any jot from evidence that the use of the Cob County of the exam and a loan check is discriminatory under the applicable federal statute, Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964. As the judge says, the question “whether the written written The exams in question or credit inquiries were useful or necessary to some extent in determining the applicant’s fitness for the firefighter’s position “has never been disputed.

Ray cites the applicable precedent of the Supreme Court of 2009 in an almost identical case in which firefighters in New Haven, Connecticut, Richie against a childfather participate. In this case, the court ruled against the city after discarding the use of a written promotion test simply because the white candidates are superior to the black candidates of the test. The court found that before joining intentional discrimination to eliminate “involuntarily different impact”, the employer must have a “strong basis in evidence” in order to believe that it would be responsible if it fails to participate in racial, discriminatory hiring or promotions.

Ray applied this precedent, although he mentioned in a footnote that “one can wonder if such decisions remain the prevailing view of the current judges.” He noted that there is a “scientific debate about whether it is a constitutional federal legislation to prohibit practices or policies that are neutral to them, if there is different impacts, especially when there is no discriminatory intention.”

According to the judge, he was asked to approve the Cob County, agreed to “deliberately discriminate against in the future, for the firm purpose of eliminating a presumed different impact, without clear and tested evidence or in good faith” that such medicine was justified. In fact, this decree of consent would require a county to establish 16 “priority” positions for African-American rental, with a rear date and $ 750,000 in “monetary relief that should be widespread among those eligible for African-American claimants”.

In other words, Cob County will have to create a system for hiring firefighter quotas based on a race without being able to test to ensure that the employees they hire are actually competent to be firefighters. COBB County will apply a discriminatory rubble system that would be a “form of deliberate discrimination based on race” to resolve unproven, penetration of claims.

According to Ray, he was asked to approve the terms of an agreement, which would be a violation of the “fundamental principle of Title VII” that “prevented employers from taking any adverse action” due to race.

Ray had none of that. As he said in his conclusion, “the court will not approve an agreement that may violate the rights of others without sufficient evidence to show that such races -based actions are justified.”

One has to wonder why Cob County would agree to such an agreement. Is it because the district committee is now being controlled by the Democrats and they wanted to accommodate a democratic administration? Their defense was so negligent that Ray added a footnote at the end of his order, warning to the county that if “President Trump’s new administration continues this case, he could” appoint a special defender to represent the Cob County, A step that “which” seems justified “because the county” agreed so easily with this agreement “.

What should happen instead is that the Trump administration must reject this unjustified and unfounded attack against Cob County Firefighters, an attack that threatens the safety of residents and their right to have firefighters to protect and raise them based on the basis of their competence, not their skin color.