Conservatives Reclaim Civil‑Rights Enforcement

Conservatives should actively contest administrative interpretations of the Fair Housing Act and other civil‑rights statutes, using litigation, appointments, and statutory reform to restore a text‑based, constitutionally restrained approach to enforcement. The goal is to push back on what the author calls bureaucratic social engineering and refocus agencies on prohibiting intentional discrimination rather than engineering desired racial compositions. — If pursued, this strategy could reshape litigation, DOJ and HUD priorities, and the partisan framing of civil‑rights law, with downstream effects on housing markets, school assignment debates, and antidiscrimination policy.