[EL] DOJ Civil Rights/Voting leadership

[Justin Levitt]

With respect to personnel, Rick posted a notice here: 
https://electionlawblog.org/?p=90559

With respect to new filings, there's some general information about the 
Civil Rights Division here 
<There%27s%20some%20general%20information%20about>. That page includes 
information 
<https://www.justice.gov/crt/does-division-announce-cases-and-resolutions> 
on the announcement of newly filed cases and resolutions.

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Justin Levitt
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On 5/23/2017 1:20 PM, Hess, Doug wrote:
>
> Hi, all. Two questions about DOJ:
>
> 1)I’m wondering who is filing which of the leading positions in DOJ 
> regarding voting and civil rights (at least as far as those CRD 
> leaders who might oversee voting).  I haven’t seen a “leadership 
> chart” on DOJ before, and the only name I see on the DOJ website is 
> Tom Wheeler as Acting AAG for Civil Rights Division (I assume acting 
> means temporarily promoted from within and not awaiting Senate 
> approval or formal appointment?). So my question is: Who is filling 
> acting or appointed, as well as continuing or even vacant, leadership 
> roles on voting rights at DOJ right now in either the section or CR 
> division?
>
> 2)Has the Voting Section filed any litigation or joined any suits 
> since the start of the Trump Administration? I don’t see any recent 
> activity listed, but not sure if they list them all.
>
> Thanks for any thoughts.
>
> Douglas R Hess
>
> Assistant Professor of Political Science
>
> Grinnell College
> 1210 Park Street, Carnegie Hall #309
> Grinnell, IA 50112
>
> phone: 641-269-4383
>
> http://www.douglasrhess.com <http://www.douglasrhess.com/>
>
>
>
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