Here’s Toby Moore, formerly a redistricting expert under John Tanner in the voting rights section, explaining why he, and so many other career employees left the Civil Rights Division.
Moore explained that he’d left because he’d found there was “no sense” in doing his work “if it didnât make a difference in the decisions being made.” Tanner and the political appointees above him, Moore explained, decided issues “of significance and controversy” (like whether to approve Georgia’s voter ID law) based on “political expediency.” So Moore, and many other career analysts and attorneys, left.