WASHINGTON—In the latest of a series of escalations in President Donald Trump’s highly publicized war on “woke,” the U.S. Department of Justice reportedly removed all mentions of justice from its website Friday.
The purge follows a directive from the DOJ last week to roll back pro-justice programs and delete thousands of webpages that contained banned words, including “fairness,” “integrity,” “due process,” and “honor.” Citing an executive order from the president, Attorney General Pam Bondi directed her department to comb through all its articles, images, videos, and social media posts to remove any “un-American, leftist propaganda” related to upholding the rule of law, keeping the nation safe, or protecting citizen’s rights.
“Justice is a discriminatory form of woke cultural Marxism that has no place in our Justice Department,” Bondi said during a press conference, adding that pro-justice policies actively divided Americans, spread misinformation, and distracted from the DOJ’s core mission. “Anyone who says that justice is our department’s strength—or that we should promote dangerous ideals that imply Americans will be treated with dignity or compassion in the eyes of the law—is sadly mistaken.”
phrase “equal justice under the law.”
“Thanks to Donald Trump, justice is dead,” she added. “And this is just the beginning.”
According to a memo issued by Bondi, officials were given one week to search through the vast DOJ archives and purge historical photographs, educational articles, and even training courses that describe, for example, how U.S. attorney’s offices have fought for everyday Americans and upheld their basic rights. They were also instructed to comb through the vast archives of the department’s Antitrust, Civil Rights, Criminal, and Environmental divisions to flag any instance in which the agency wielded its power to hold a powerful person, corporation, or government agency accountable.
The Trump administration praised the Justice Department’s swift and thorough compliance, including its decision to fire hundreds of “morality obsessed” employees who were in any way associated with upholding the Civil Rights Act, the Voting Rights Act, the Americans with Disabilities Act, or the Judiciary Act of 1789.
“Joe Biden held the DOJ hostage with his woke agenda for four years, forcing us to have a functional legal system,” said Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-SC), adding that the department’s website should have never contained blatantly partisan photos of things like federal courts, gavels, or the scales of justice. “This is a government agency, and I don’t think its website should be hijacked by liberals to brainwash people into thinking that all men are created equal, or that they are endowed by their creator with certain unalienable rights.”
“Trump fired anyone who believed in justice,” Graham continued, “and frankly, I hope he throws them all in jail.”
Bondi acknowledged that amid the urgency to remove offending materials, several articles describing the DOJ’s role in acts of injustice, evil, and unbridled terror had been deleted inadvertently. As soon as the mistake was noticed, however, such materials were quickly restored, including those that praise the department for using COINTELPRO to destabilize the Civil Rights Movement, expanding warrantless surveillance under the Patriot Act, and defending Japanese internment camps during World War II. Many pieces of content that had previously highlighted a victim of violence, oppression, or a hate crime overcoming injustice or earning a hard-fought legal victory had also reportedly been changed to show them losing their case, being sentenced to life in prison, and ultimately regretting speaking up or resisting at all.
“Lady Justice is a symbol of the radical woke left and does not in any way represent our values,” said Bondi, adding that citizens were sick and tired of having fair-
mindedness and even-handedness shoved down their throats. “The American people have historically preferred to stand on the sidelines and stay silent in the face of injustice. In these first few months of Donald Trump’s second term, they have proved that again and again.”
Bondi added, “You can rest assured we won’t stop until we eliminate justice across the entire federal government.”
