NPR’s Morning Edition offers this report. It is described on the website as follows: “has been growing between career lawyers and political appointees in the Justice Department’s Civil Rights Division. Now the Senate Judiciary Committee is holding confirmation hearings for a new leader of the politically sensitive group. Some career professionals who have left the division recently say they left because they were shut out of the decision making process in a way that did not occur under previous administrations. A spokesman for Justice says that there is no split between political appointees and career lawyers. He points to the division’s recent accomplishments in disability rights and human trafficking prosecutions as proof of it’s effectiveness.” It includes some discussion of voting rights cases. Thanks to Mark Posner for the pointer.