President Donald Trump tapped Craig Trainor, a former aide to House Judiciary Committee Chairman Jim Jordan (R-OH), to lead the Justice Department’s Civil Rights Division on an acting basis after Harmeet Dhillon resigned last week.
The appointment fills one of several vacancies at the DOJ since Democrats won control of Congress in the midterm elections. Trainor takes over a division that Dhillon redirected toward obtaining state voter rolls and challenging diversity policies, priorities that will now fall to him.
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