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We’ve been paying even closer attention than usual this week to Harmeet Dhillon, the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) Civil Rights division chief who, reports suggest, could soon be in line for a promotion.
A new lawsuit filed seeks to force the Justice Department to divulge communications between senior officials and prominent election deniers throughout the department’s ongoing efforts to obtain state voter rolls and relitigate President Trump’s 2020 election loss.
A federal judge dismissed the Department of Justice’s (DOJ) lawsuit demanding Massachusetts’ unredacted voter registration rolls Thursday, marking the fifth loss for the agency, with zero wins, out of 30 active cases.
Arizona’s top Republican lawmaker accused the state’s Democratic attorney general and secretary of state of potentially committing federal crimes as they warn counties not to hand over sensitive voter data to Trump’s DOJ.
It would be difficult enough for the Department of Justice (DOJ) to simultaneously litigate 30 lawsuits demanding states turn over their unredacted voter registration records, but the government’s attorneys nonetheless seem to insist on making things harder still by repeatedly contradicting themselves. Minnesota filed a notice to supplement the record Tuesday in the lawsuit brought […]
Harmeet Dhillon, the Justice Department’s civil rights chief and a potential candidate for promotion, attended the weekend wedding of Republican fundraiser Caroline Wren — a key organizer of the Jan. 6 rally.
U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) Civil Rights Division chief Harmeet Dhillon may be promoted to Associate Attorney General.
With his popularity plummeting, President Donald Trump took a major step this week aimed at grabbing control of U.S. elections. But in truth, the anti-voting executive order he issued Tuesday only underscored his weakness.
Legal experts say the voter suppression diktat may be as strategically foolish as it is doomed.
“It’s a Justice Department that has been decimated,” Kristen Clarke told Democracy Docket. “And its ranks are now being filled by people who’ve never enforced federal laws before.”
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