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Justice Department Civil Rights Division drops voting cases

By Drooid · Oct 11, 2026, 4:22 PM UTC · How we work

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Harmeet Dhillon, chief of the Justice Department Civil Rights Division, reshaped it to advance President Donald Trump’s agenda.
She dismissed hundreds of longtime attorneys and hired allies from conservative legal groups.
The division dropped investigations and withdrew interest in voting-rights and discrimination cases.
The division filed lawsuits demanding voter data and deployed monitors to primary elections.
Judges have dismissed more than two dozen of those lawsuits, most recently in Georgia.

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Harmeet Dhillon, chief of the Justice Department Civil Rights Division, reshaped it to advance President Donald Trump’s agenda.
She dismissed hundreds of longtime attorneys and hired allies from conservative legal groups.
The division dropped investigations and withdrew interest in voting-rights and discrimination cases.
The division filed lawsuits demanding voter data and deployed monitors to primary elections.
Judges have dismissed more than two dozen of those lawsuits, most recently in Georgia.