Leah Feiger
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first heard Apr 2026
last heard 17 Sep
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And in the past year, the DOJ's voting section, which, as the name suggests, is the group that works to protect the right of Americans to vote, has been changing beyond recognition.
I don't just mean entirely different missions or what have you, which is all true.
But more than that, its staff has been virtually gutted.
There were around 30 attorneys in the voting section on the day of Donald Trump's second inauguration.
Three months later, all but two were gone.
The departing lawyers have since been replaced by new hires with little federal court experience who've all spent years working against the very department they have now joined.
These attorneys have appeared more than willing to comply with Trump's anti-voting directives, and many of them have actually worked with Trump previously, defending him and his efforts to overturn the 2020 presidential election.
But to put this all into a bit of context, the voting section is a really, really key part of the DOJ's civil rights division.
We don't talk about it a ton, and in some ways that's kind of the point.
The voting section has been described as the crown jewel of the division, and it was established following the Voting Rights Act to stop discrimination in voting.
So if you haven't heard of it before, the goal is that theoretically it's doing its job and it's working.
The lawyers who have worked there for years and years are all considered to be like the voting experts, the election experts in the country.
So to have had them all virtually ousted in the last 15 months is pretty shocking.
And to really understand how this dismantling took place, we have to go back to the 2020 election, where Trump really sought to weaponize the Justice Department, appointing special counsels to investigate election conspiracy theories.
But it didn't really work because officials of the department pushed back.
They threatened mass resignations.
Skip ahead a couple of years and Trump's efforts have been pretty successful.
In February of last year, now former Attorney General Pam Bondi issued a series of memos to the staff that called for DOJ lawyers to be zealously advocating for the president.
Staff called them the Bondi blasts and were like, this is spelling out the beginning of the end.
It's a good name.
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