Leah Feiger

And as a result, Dillon sent letters to the senior managers in the section to transfer them to basically the Justice Department's complaint office.

well outside of their areas.

It was like a bureau of prison people writing to them with like complaints about their jobs.

Like this was so clearly ousting.

No, it's huge.

This is someone who's had their hands in so many different things, has worked with lawyers across the country, has represented all sorts of people, and really importantly, has very much thrown in with the administration.

And the people that she has hired are a really interesting bunch.

Like I mentioned, a lot of them have worked with Trump before, representing him in various attempts to overturn 2020.

And...

Without sounding mean here, but this was arguably one of my favorite parts of the entire story, another consequence of these changes and the replacement of the lawyers is this litany of mistakes that have become entirely commonplace to the voting section.

They actually had to institute a writing class for the division's new hires, which lawyers told David had never, ever happened before.

Yeah.

Yeah.

And ultimately, though, like as like kind of like slapstick as this all is, the section has really become exclusively focused on forcing states to hand over unredacted versions of their voter rolls.

And that all, as you guys know, contains really sensitive information, social security numbers, driver's licenses.

And the DOJ has now sued 30 states and D.C.

for failing to provide this voter registration information.

And they're like framing it as this election integrity enforcement thing.

Although a lot of experts believe that it's going to be about purging voter rolls, checking citizen eligibility, et cetera, et cetera.

So much of this is tied back to conspiracy theories about like election denial and the 2020 election.