Attorney General Pam Bondi announced Wednesday that the Justice Department is backing away from an assault on police and fire departments that used entrance examinations deemed by DOJ bureaucrats to produce disparate impacts. At issue were consent decrees and financial settlements, both imposed and pending trial, involving the Maryland State Police and the Durham (NC), Cobb County (GA), and South Bend (IN) fire departments. “American communities deserve firefighters and police officers to be chosen for their skill and dedication to public safety — not to meet DEI quotas,” Bondi said in a statement; see Manliness Is Great Again: Trump Just Ended Biden’s Hostile DEI Takeover of First Responders – RedState.
At issue were written and physical tests that resulted in a statistically lower number of qualified Black and women applicants, even though all…
