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The Department of Justice’s Civil Rights Division has for nearly seven decades been at the forefront of some of the department’s most historically significant work. As a backstop to disenfranchised Americans in the South and minorities nationwide, the Civil Right Division has long been at the vanguard of protecting the rights of “the most vulnerable members of our society,” as it still says on its website.

Reporting in recent days had indicated that a purge of top lawyers in the division was underway, and now there is a full-scale exodus from the division as Assistant Attorney General for Civil Rights Harmeet Dhillon wrenches it from its traditional functions mandated by Congress toward propping up the policies of President Trump:

Since being sworn in this month, civil rights director Harmeet K. Dhillon has redirected her staff to focus on combating antisemitism, the participation of transgender athletes in women’s sports and what Trump and his allies have described as anti-Christian bias and the Democrats’ “woke ideology.”

Approximately half of the division’s approximately 380 attorneys have either left or are planning to leave, the NYT reports.

The voting section has come in for especially harsh treatment from the new administration. The Guardian reports that all of the senior managers in the section have been removed and most notably that all active cases have been ordered dismissed.