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Resurrecting Jim Crow: The Erratic Resume of the Voting Section Chief

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Resurrecting Jim Crow: The Erratic Resume of the Voting Section Chief

When John K. Tanner replaced Joe Rich as section chief of the Justice Department’s Voting Section in 2005, a breathtaking politicization — already under way after Alex Acosta was put in charge of the Civil Rights Division — accelerated sharply. The exodus of talent, expertise, and knowledge of civil rights law in the two years under Tanner’s stewardship is numbing. Roughly 50% of the staff1 — attorneys, including many of the top litigators, researchers and analysts — have left, and Tanner has waged an aggressive effort to remake the section in his own image — not an image that most people who promote the core mission of the Voting Rights Act, which the Section is primarily responsible for enforcing, would support. (keep reading)

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