Legacy media paints Harmeet Dhillon as plucky underdog fighting ‘woke ideology’
To the legacy media, Harmeet Dhillon has spent her career as an underdog — bravely swimming against the liberal tide
DOJ Voter Data Access
Reports: DOJ Civil Rights chief Harmeet Dhillon to be promoted amid department shakeup
U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) Civil Rights Division chief Harmeet Dhillon may be promoted to Associate Attorney General.
This week at Democracy Docket: Trump’s doomed anti-voting order, DeSantis spreads election lies — and Harmeet Dhilon for AG?
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.
Trump’s anti-voting order may backfire, damaging DOJ’s voter roll campaign
Legal experts say the voter suppression diktat may be as strategically foolish as it is doomed.
WATCH: Former DOJ civil rights chief slams ‘decimation’ of department’s voting rights work
“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.”
Trump DOJ sues Idaho as even red states resist voter data demands
The U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) sued Idaho after the state refused to hand over sensitive voter registration data — the latest example of resistance to the Trump administration’s voter roll crusade extending into strongly Republican states.
Idaho DOJ Voter Data Access Challenge
USA v. McGrane
An anti-voting lawsuit seeking to compel Idaho to provide the DOJ with access to its complete statewide voter registration database.
Civil rights chief’s social media post may undercut DOJ case in Fulton County ballot seizure
The Trump Justice Department may have put its foot in it on social media — again.
Trump DOJ gives new assurance it won’t use voter data for immigration enforcement. Reports suggest that’s false
The Department of Justice gave its most definitive assurances yet about how it intends to use sensitive voter data it manages to grab — insisting it will only be used for election-related purposes and nothing else.
This week at Democracy Docket: SCOTUS hears a GOP voter suppression bid, on the ground in Fulton County, and a lawless MAGA sheriff
The anti-democracy onslaught continues apace. And we’re keeping you up to date on all of it.