Who, me? retaliate? No.
We’ve written frequently about the efforts of senior political appointees in the Civil Rights Division to undermine the traditional role of the voting rights section. One of the main techniques was to add negative remarks to the performance evaluations for career attorneys; the message invariably sent was that this was a punishment for stepping out of line with the Justice Department’s new priorities (protecting the rights of African American voters wasn’t one of them).
This is a companion discussion topic for the original entry at https://talkingpointsmemo.com/?p=180323