Move 18 U.S.C. 241 election prosecutions to the Criminal Division

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Printed page 562 17. Department of Justice

“The Attorney General in the next conservative Administration should reassign responsibility for prosecuting violations of 18 U.S. Code § 241 from the Civil Rights Division to the Criminal Division where it belongs.”

What has happened

Aug 27, 2026 Not started
Responsibility for prosecuting 18 U.S.C. 241 has not moved. 28 CFR part 0 was amended three times in the window — for the Tax Division, the Office of the Executive Secretariat and the new National Fraud Enforcement Division — and none of those rules touched the Civil Rights Division's criminal jurisdiction. The Attorney General's own use of section 241 in the window points the other way: the September 2025 memorandum on parental rights in schools invokes section 241 against school officials and is addressed to the Assistant Attorney General for Civil Rights alongside the FBI Director and the U.S. Attorneys, leaving the statute where it is.
- Attorney General memorandum: Upholding Constitutional Rights and Parental Authority in America's Education System
  Primary Executive branch Sep 8, 2025
- DOJ final rule: Transfer of the Functions of the Tax Division to the Civil Division and the Criminal Division
  Primary Executive branch Dec 10, 2025

Research log

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Action running against the ask is attached as Evidence to the not started event, so a reader sees the record rather than a bare negative.

Action: transfer
Object: prosecution of 18 U.S. Code § 241 election offenses
ID: 1565