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The Hill:
A staffer at the Department of Justice is in hot water after sending a tweet about Melania Trump from the agency’s Twitter account.
In a statement Tuesday, a Justice official said a “staffer in the public affairs… Continue reading
Category Archives: Department of Justice
“Justice Department Voting Rights Unit Adapts After Supreme Court Ruling”
Carrie Johnson of NPR talks to Justin Levitt and others about voting issues at DOJ.
“For government’s top lawyer on voting rights, presidential election has already begun”
Nice Sari Horwitz profile of Justin Levitt in the Washington Post. (Justin has been an ELB blogger but not while he’s at DOJ.)
Levitt would not discuss specific cases, except to say that although the department is hampered by the… Continue reading
“Eric Holder on Voting Rights, Black Lives Matter, Karl Rove, and Tupac”
Conversation with Ari Berman.
The case that struck down a key part of the Voting Rights Act was called Shelby County v. Holder. You are Holder. Do you think the Administration in retrospect could have done anything differently in… Continue reading
“The Justice Department Is Now on the Campaign Finance Beat”
Former US AG Michael Mukasey Criticizes DOJ Voting Section
Imprimis:
The DOJ’s Civil Rights Division is the one we think of as having the main responsibility for protecting fairness. Yet its recent record has indicated other priorities. Recently its Voting Section went out of its way to review a… Continue reading
“Loyola Law School, Los Angeles Professor Justin Levitt Named to U.S. Department of Justice Post Overseeing Voting”
Release:
Loyola Law School, Los Angeles today announced that prominent election law professor Justin Levitt, a national expert in constitutional law and the law of democracy, has been named Deputy Assistant Attorney General in the Civil Rights Division of… Continue reading
Big News: Justin Levitt to DOJ
My friend, co-blogger,and colleague Justin Levitt will be taking a leave from Loyola (and this blog) to take a position as Deputy Assistant Attorney General in the Civil Rights Division of the Department of Justice, with a focus on voting… Continue reading
An Academic Elegy
Guy-Urïel Charles and Luis Fuentes-Rohwer, have a new piece in the Iowa Law Review. I offered a commentary, here. Just to give you a flavor for the piece is, here’s a brief excerpt from my introduction, which offers a… Continue reading
“On eve of historic voter suppression trial, battle lines are drawn in NC-NAACP v McCrory (Part I)”
DocDawg at Daily Kos.
“DOJ Wants 4 Years in Jail for Consultant In Super PAC Campaign Coordination Case”
Bloomberg BNA:
The Justice Department is asking for a jail sentence of nearly four years for Tyler Harber, a Virginia political consultant who pleaded guilty to illegal coordination of campaign financing by a super political action committee and a congressional… Continue reading
“Watchdog Groups Urge DOJ to Name Special Outside Counsel to Investigate Legality of Bush Super PAC Scheme”
“Feds probing alleged voting rights violations involving disabled Californians”
LAT:
Federal authorities are investigating allegations that California and its courts are unlawfully denying voting rights to some intellectually disabled residents, according to documents released Wednesday.
Attorneys for the U.S. Department of Justice in Sacramento have requested records from… Continue reading
“New Public-Corruption Chief Vows To Not Shy Away”
Carrie Johnson for NPR: “Veteran prosecutor Raymond Hulser has been promoted to lead the Justice Department’s Public Integrity Section, the unit that goes after corrupt public officials including lawmakers, judges and military contractors.”