Category Archives: Department of Justice
NC: “U.S. Justice Department to monitor voting in Forsyth, Wake, Cumberland and Robeson counties”
AP reports.
“Will The New era Of Limited Federal Monitoring Still Protect Voter Rights?”
Nina Totenberg reports for NPR.
“Justice Department significantly reducing number of federal observers stationed inside polling places”
Sari Horwitz for WaPo:
The Justice Department is significantly reducing the number of federal observers stationed inside polling places in next month’s election at the same time that voters will face strict new election laws in more than a… Continue reading
DOJ and Private Plaintiffs File #SCOTUS Responses in NC Emergency Voting Case
Private Plaintiffs’ response.
DOJ’s response.
Chief Justice Roberts can now decide this motion himself or refer to the Court. (NC might try to draft a reply by tomorrow). I’d expect a decision early next week. Here’s what I … Continue reading
Oops
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
“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