In a move that piqued our interest here at TPMmuckraker, Sen. Schumer, during his questioning of Eric Holder, cited the racist email sent by John Tanner, who was at the time the head of the voting rights section, about Mary Frances Berry, the then-chair of the US Commission on Civil Rights.
Schumer called the statement “all the more shocking becasue it’s a supervisor in the civil rights division who said this.”
Tanner sent a letter of apology to Berry earlier this week.
Here’s the video:
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