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NEW: Harmeet Dhillon swore in 100+ new Civil Rights Division lawyers as "civil rights warriors" for "ALL Americans" — then named exactly none of them. So we did. Court filings let us ID 11. At least 5 arrived with records of misconduct, controversy, or hiring irregularities. 1/

Meet Daniel Flickinger. In 2020 he was forced to resign from an Alabama law firm over a Facebook post mocking George Floyd's murder as "purely hypothetical." He now helps run the DOJ office that polices civil-rights compliance on college campuses. 2/

Meet Eric Neff. At the LA DAs, a True the Vote conspiracy theory led him to prosecute an election-software CEO. The charges were dropped. He was placed on leave. LA paid $5M to settle the wrongful prosecution. He's now chief of the DOJ's Voting Section. 3/ www.justice.gov/crt/media/14...

Meet Greta Gieseke. She was hired as a career trial attorney with 11 months of non-clerkship experience. Then, despite division policy, she was detailed straight to Dhillon's office. She's now counsel on the affirmative-action and CA redistricting suits. 4/ www.welch.senate.gov/wp-content/u...

Meet Jesus Osete. He's Dhillon's top deputy. Per ProPublica, he attended mtgs of lawyers Trump tasked w/reinvestigating his 2020 loss, which preceded the FBI's seizure of election records. Osete compared what Dhillon's doing to the Civil Rights Diision to stonemasons building a cathedral. 6/

Sadly, there's a bunch more examples in there, along with links to some excellent reporting. Please check it out. Thanks! 7/7

Yeah, this is the culmination of the Federal Society's nearly half-century-long project of turning civil rights laws and Supreme Court rulings upside-down.