Conservative activists are urging President Donald Trump to promote Harmeet Dhillon, the assistant attorney general for civil rights at the Justice Department, as opposed to President Ronald Reagan's attempts to uproot civil rights laws in the 1980s. This comes after Ronald Reagan attempted to promote William Bradford Reynolds to associate attorney general in 1985, but this was rejected by the Republican-controlled Senate. Today, the Trump administration, with Dillon leading, has revived many of Reynolds' failed crusades, including efforts to repeal President Lyndon B. Johnson’s landmark 1965 executive order 11246, requiring federal contractors to implement affirmative action plans for hiring women and racial minorities. The administration has also upended Title IX enforcement to focus on restricting enforcement of Title IX.