According to OhMyGov Analytics, 2,782 references to the DOJ were recorded June 1--the date Edwards' case in Greensboro was concluded, kicking off a seven-day surge that brought the total mentions of the DOJ to well over 10,000.

But Edwards' imbroglio with mistress Rielle Hunter wasn't the only topic of discussion dominating the social media network that day. According to CNN, lawyers for Florida's local elections officers recommended that all of the state's 67 counties stop purging names from voter rolls following the Justice Department's intervention in the program.

The recommendation effectively halts Governor Rick Scott's (R-FL) effort to identify and purge the names of non-citizens who had registered to vote illegally.  Over 100,000 such individuals were identified using the state's Department of Highway Safety and Motor Vehicle data prior to the Department of Justice stepping in on May 31, writing in a memorandum that the state failed to notify the federal government of their plans to purge the rolls--a possible violation of the 1965 Civil Rights Act.

The news was welcomed by many on Twitter, congratulating them for putting the kibosh what they see as Florida's persecution of minority voters--many of them Democrats.

"Someone has answered my prayers," @23YearNavyVet wrote. "thank u Justice Department!"

Yet not everyone welcomed the news.

"Please add this Department of Justice to the 'abolish' list" EBCheck12 wrote, referencing Florida's halt of the voter rolls.

"Man, are we ever going to have true justice anymore?" He said in a linked audio clip. "How in the heck can the Department of Justice...be telling a state that is trying to do the right thing to stop doing it?"

The sentiment was shared by many conservatives on Twitter, who believe that the halting of the voter rolls by the DOJ is a desperate move by the Obama Administration to strengthen its' reelection chances because, to quote one outraged user, "Democrats need the extra ballots to stuff the ballot box."

The controversy over the purging of voter rolls wasn't the only time DOJ found itself in the center of controversy as the month of June kicked off. On June 4, 1,325 tweets were recorded as several stories about the agency broke, all on the same day. The crumbling of the DOJ's case against British Petroleum (BP) engineer Kurt Mix, an investigation into the possibly illegal collection of fees by attorneys in corporate bankruptcy cases, and the DOJ's decision to monitor the recall election in Wisconsin Twitter users both on the right and left--a sign that the election season is truly here.