Justice Department investigates police shooting of Alex Pretti amid separate voting rights legal fight

The U.S. Justice Department has opened a civil rights investigation into the police shooting of Alex Pretti. An internal review of the incident reportedly contradicts the Trump administration's earlier account, and both Democratic and Republican senators have called for an investigation into the killing.

Separately, the Trump Justice Department is involved in a legal fight over its use of a civil rights law to remove names from voter registration lists. A judge recently dealt a blow to this effort, which critics have called an attempt to 'clean' voter rolls.