The U.S. Senate voted 51-48 on May 25 to confirm Kristen Clarke to head the U.S. Department of Justice’s (DOJ) Civil Rights Division. She will lead a Civil Rights Division (CRD) of the DOJ that has become less a race-neutral enforcer of civil rights laws and more a government wing of progressive organizations. A bill currently before Congress would give that politicized division sweeping powers over North Carolina’s elections. Christopher Coates, a former American Civil Liberties Union lawyer who served in the Voting Section in the Civil Rights Division, brought the discriminatory rift in the DOJ to light in 2010 testimony to Congress. While Coates worked on several cases enforcing the Voting Rights Act, he ran into resistance from within the DOJ on one case: