Current and former officials with the Justice Department’s Civil Rights Division say the Trump administration’s moves to change the department have forced out employees in what one senior attorney said has been a “complete bloodbath.”

The changes, which have not been widely publicized, come as the administration has implemented new priorities that former and current officials said upend the division’s mission to enforce laws prohibiting housing, voting, and hiring discrimination, NBC News reported Wednesday.

Sources commented that the administration has reassigned more than a dozen senior lawyers, with some choosing to resign after they were moved to roles unrelated to their areas of expertise.

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