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Trump Admin Purges DOJ Voting Section, Replaces Lawyers with Loyalists

4/29/2026

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The Justice Department’s Voting Section is being dismantled as U.S. President Donald Trump’s administration replaces veteran attorneys with political loyalists.
The administration has forced out more than two dozen Voting Section lawyers and installed loyalists.
David Becker, former Voting Section lawyer, says the purge erases decades of institutional knowledge in a unit created after the 1965 Voting Rights Act to enforce National Voter Registration Act and Help America Vote Act.

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The Justice Department’s Voting Section is being dismantled as U.S. President Donald Trump’s administration replaces veteran attorneys with political loyalists.
The administration has forced out more than two dozen Voting Section lawyers and installed loyalists.
David Becker, former Voting Section lawyer, says the purge erases decades of institutional knowledge in a unit created after the 1965 Voting Rights Act to enforce National Voter Registration Act and Help America Vote Act.