The Department of Justice (DOJ) lost its fourth official in the week following the midterms, with Assistant Attorney General for the Civil Division Brett Shumate resigning Monday.

The Civil Division handles a wide variety of cases and has seen significant departures during the Trump administration as caseloads soared.

Shumate has overseen a number of controversial cases. These include suing universities that offered in-state tuition for undocumented citizens, defending Trump’s executive order on mail-in voting restrictions, fighting state-level laws that sought to ban federal agents from wearing masks and also suing states to force them to issue undercover license plates to immigration officers.

Under outgoing official, the Civil Division was bleeding staff, including among high profile divisions like appellate staff as well as the federal programs branch, two areas involved with defending the president’s priorities in court.

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[–] 5 points 1 day ago

I would be willing to be they know exactly what they did, and are more than happy to talk.

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