Leah Feiger
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1,642 appearances
14 recordings
1 series
first heard Apr 2026
last heard 17 Sep
Leah Feiger’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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Yeah.
Over the following months, this became even more clear.
In April, the Senate confirmed the appointment of Harmeet Dhillon as the assistant attorney general in charge of the Civil Rights Division.
Dhillon has advocated for Trump in his claims that the 2020 election was stolen.
And she's also, since being appointed, pushed out senior leadership, including people who were there from the ANC.
You guys will enjoy this.
When the resignation program across the government last year was rolled out, offered to tens of thousands of federal workers during Doge, former section lawyers tell Wired that they thought that Dillon didn't think that resignations were happening quickly enough.
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.
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