Vanita Gupta took over DOJ’s Civil Rights Division in the wake of the Ferguson unrest, and oversaw the Obama administration’s police reform work. https://twitter.com/etuckerAP/status/1346873135426117633
As a young attorney fresh out of law school, Vanita Gupta jumped right into a massive police corruption case involving a racist former rodeo cowboy whose false testimony sent dozens of Black Texans to prison. https://www.huffpost.com/entry/vanita-gupta-doj-civil-rights-division_n_7190982
Vanita Gupta Is Setting The Tone For Obama's Civil Rights Division

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https://www.huffpost.com/entry/vanita-gupta-doj-civil-rights-division_n_7190982
I interviewed Vanita Gupta inside of J. Edgar Hoover’s former conference room not long before Trump took office. Here’s what she told me: https://www.huffpost.com/entry/obama-justice-department-civil-rights-division_n_586eb67ae4b099cdb0fc4e24
Obama’s DOJ Got Aggressive On Civil Rights And Police Abuse. Now Trump Could Roll It All Back.

“A lot of the issues that folks believe are most vulnerable are the very issues where this Justice Department has been out in front.”

https://www.huffpost.com/entry/obama-justice-department-civil-rights-division_n_586eb67ae4b099cdb0fc4e24
Indeed. https://twitter.com/AdamSerwer/status/1346878802820026375
Safe to say the career Civil Rights Division attorneys who stuck it out for four years are pretty psyched right now.
Not that she’ll necessarily need it, but Gupta also has a lot of conservative admirers. From 2014: https://www.huffpost.com/entry/vanita-gupta-doj-civil-rights-ferguson_n_5993310
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