Department of Justice Steps Into Voting Rights Fight, Filing High-Stakes Lawsuit Against Georgia

“The Department of Justice has been largely missing in action with regard to voting rights over the last four years,” says Gerry Hebert, the senior director of voting rights and redistricting at the nonpartisan nonprofit Campaign Legal Center (CLC) and a former attorney in the DOJ’s civil rights division from 1973 to 1994. “This announcement, I think, shows that Attorney General Garland and the team that he has working for him are serious about the challenges and restrictions on the right to vote.”

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