The DOJ’s Civil Rights Division has long been an exclusive preserve of Democrats, trending toward contemporary Democrats who are also Marxists and Islamists. For decades, the CRD ignored rights that did not support Democrat policies and desires. With the second Trump Administration, the CRD’s new Second Amendment section is now suing government entities that are infringing on Americans’ Second Amendment liberties, and Democrats are apoplectic, as Jennifer Mascia at The Trace explains:

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The Civil Rights Division typically fights for the disempowered by enforcing federal anti-discrimination statutes. It was created in 1957 to ensure Black voting rights and school desegregation. Gun rights “have never been a focus,” said Megan Marks, a former attorney in the division who is now deputy director and managing editor of Red Line for Civil Rights, a nonprofit initiative that tracks the politicization of civil rights enforcement under President Donald Trump. …

Ah. Enforcement of civil rights is “politicized” when a Republican administration decides to not only enforce Democrat priorities, but also other, legitimate constitutional liberties Democrats want to suppress. Of course.

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The DOJ’s suits come at a time when the Trump administration has departed from more traditional civil rights issues – discrimination against marginalized groups based on race, sex, disability, and religion – by pursuing conservative policies, reshaping DEI initiatives, investigating “reverse discrimination,” and suing universities over affirmative action practices. …

Many of which are illegal, but previously ignored.

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Some experts and veteran civil rights attorneys said they are troubled by the Justice Department’s new direction. “The history of racial discrimination in the U.S. is this deep scar, while gun rights were never really under assault in a country that has more guns than people,” said John Donohue, a law professor at Stanford University. He said the Second Amendment Section is unnecessary because an army of well-funded pro-gun groups “are constantly bringing litigation.” He also pointed to the financial burden for states and municipalities that will have to spend money defending their laws in court.

“Experts?” Expert in what? Propaganda? Trying to obliterate the Second Amendment? Gun rights have never been under assault because Americans own a lot of guns? Apparently, “experts and veteran civil rights attorneys” live in some other country, some other reality. In this reality, gun rights are under constant assault, particularly in blue states and cities.

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The financial burdens of “states and municipalities,” and the lawsuits of “well-funded pro-gun groups” can be immediately alleviated when states and municipalities no longer enact blatantly unconstitutional laws--laws they know to be unconstitutional--to “make a statement,” virtual signal, and harass, even imprison, law-abiding gun owners until their anti-liberty/gun laws are inevitably overturned.

At Bearing Arms, Tom Knighton explains why “experts and veteran civil rights attorneys are so upset:

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In the section’s first six months of operation, the Justice Department has brought cases against police departments in Los Angeles County and the Virgin Islands, the city of Denver, the state of Colorado, and the nation’s capital, Washington, DC. Virginia may be next: Minutes after Gov. Abigail Spanberger signed an assault weapon ban last month, Assistant Attorney General Harmeet Dhillon posted on X, “See you in court!”

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Graphic: X Post

Spanberger ran as a moderate Democrat, a species as dead as dinosaurs, but immediately upon taking office, threw off that disguise and legislated as a contemporary, anti-American, anti-Constitution, Marxist, Islamist Democrat. There is no such thing as an “assault weapon.” That’s a term invented by Democrats for propaganda. Using the term in legislation does not conjure such things out of thin air. What they’re really banning is AR-15s and similar semi-automatic rifles, the most popular in America, which absolutely fit the Supreme Court’s definition of commonly owned and used, presumptively constitutional, arms.

Not surprisingly, pro-gun organizations are thrilled with the Civil Rights Division’s new direction. “It’s great to have that giant 800-pound gorilla in the room with us,” said Kostas Moros, director of legal research and education for the Second Amendment Foundation, which has more than 50 active lawsuits seeking to void gun laws across the country. “Because courts, like it or not, do take the DOJ more seriously. And frankly it’s nice to have the DOJ at least seeing the Second Amendment as equal to all the other rights.”

Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas, in the Bruen decision, affirmed that the Second Amendment “is not a second-class right.” That followed the Court’s Heller decision, both of which affirm that the Second Amendment acknowledges, but does not create, a fundamental, unalienable, individual right to keep and bear arms. That right, as with others, comes from God.

That’s why “experts” are so upset with the DOJ. For the first time in decades, it’s upholding the individual rights of Americans Democrats have so long ignored or suppressed. It’s about time.

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Mike McDaniel is a USAF veteran, classically trained musician, Japanese and European fencer, lifelong athlete, firearm instructor, retired police officer, and high school and college English teacher. He is a published author and blogger. His home blog is Stately McDaniel Manor.