In my earlier post about President Trump’s offer of the position of White House press secretary to Dana White, I said I’d separately address the ongoing shake-up at the Trump Justice Department.
Earlier in the week, it was announced that , the Civil Right Division chief, was returning to private practice. The decision was apparently made weeks ago but not announced until after the midterms . . . which is probably because Dhillon’s office was steering the Trump DOJ’s two major — and ultimately failed — election-law cases: the attempts (1) to compel segregation of the ballots of 20,000 Californians whom the administration suspected of being aliens ineligible to vote (a challenge based on sloppy evidence-gathering, to which the Supreme Court gave the back of the hand without even asking for a response from the state), and (2) to block Alaska from declaring a winner in the (still undecided) Senate race over the Democrats’ sleazy Dan Sullivan trick (see our editorial). Dhillon was also the architect of the administration’s uniformly unsuccessful attempt to force states to provide their rolls of registered voters to the Trump administration. (In late October, the left-leaning Brennan Center calculated that of the 31 Trump DOJ lawsuits filed over voter rolls, courts had dismissed 27, and the administration did not prevail in any.)
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