Not just the US Attorneys, Gonzales and Co. have been purging the DOJ’s Civil Rights Division too.
Go read Paul Kiel’s report above. But I could not help excerpting this one passage. A good bit of the story turns on a Georgia voter ID bill (passed on the evidence contained in a book by John Fund) that the Bush Justice Department insisted on approving against the recommendation of all but one of the career attorneys in the voting section.
Here’s one thing that the Bush political appointees insisted didn’t raise any red flags. The sponsor of the bill, Georgia state Rep. Sue Burmeister told voting section staff that “if there are fewer black voters because of this bill, it will only be because there is less opportunity for fraud,” and that “when black voters in her black precincts are not paid to vote, they do not go to the polls.”
Can’t imagine there was any bad motivations behind this bill.
