Hot off the presses at Just Security, Chiraag Bains — a former colleague at both DOJ and the White House — walks through in impressive detail the current Administration’s dismissal of “all salient pending cases” brought by the decimated Voting Section of the DOJ’s Civil Rights Division, and the consequences for voters.

He closes, absolutely correctly, by noting the DOJ’s complete departure from the field in the context of the Eighth Circuit’s bananas opinions that the Voting Rights Act cannot be enforced by private parties, either directly or under section 1983.