DOJ's Civil Rights Division has not filed a single Voting Rights Act case since Trump took office
Since Donald Trump took office, the Justice Department’s Civil Rights Division has not filed a single lawsuit enforcing a crucial law intended to prevent racial voter discrimination.
By contrast, according to a Justice Department website disclosing the Civil Rights Division’s case filings, the Obama administration filed 5 lawsuits under Section 2 of the Voting Rights Act — the primary provision permitting lawsuits alleging voter discrimination on the basis of race. The second Bush administration filed 15, and the Clinton administration filed 16.
Indeed, according to the Justice Department, DOJ only filed four suits of any kind enforcing a voting rights statute. None of those four suits filed by the Trump administration were brought on behalf of voters of color denied the right to vote. In fact, one of these suits was actually a voter purge suit that resulted in an outcome that actually made it harder for people to vote — as a result of this suit, Kentucky agreed to “develop a general program of statewide voter list maintenance that makes a reasonable effort to remove registrants who have become ineligible due to a change in residence.”
In a deposition taken during a lawsuit challenging the Trump administration’s alleged efforts to discourage immigrants from participating in the 2020 Census, Acting Assistant Attorney General John Gore, who leads the Civil Rights Division, attempted to excuse his office’s inaction because the Trump administration was not in office during a “decennial census which has required every state in the union to redistrict.” This explanation makes no sense, as past administrations often filed voting rights suits outside of a redistricting cycle.
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