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4:07Now PlayingDonald Trump has installed Jeff Sessions as Attorney General, which means the the Civil Rights Division of the Department of Justice falls back into Republican hands. To understand what this could mean for America, Eric Byler ( ) spoke to Joseph Rich, who served in the Civil Rights Division of the DoJ from 1968 to 2005, and was the Voting Section chief within that division when political operatives appointed by President George W. Bush began to transform what had been a bulwark against voter suppression into a battering ram to dismantle voting rights protections. This is part 1 of a 3 part series.
Federal investigation of the Bush Justice Department:
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