Justice's new U.S. attorneys have partisan records-who'd a guessed it?

[babylonsister]

http://www.realcities.com/mld/krwashington/16962753.htm

Justice's new U.S. attorneys have partisan records
By Greg Gordon, Margaret Talev and Marisa Taylor
McClatchy Newspapers

WASHINGTON - Under President Bush, the Justice Department has backed tougher state voter identification laws and steered U.S. attorneys toward investigating voter fraud _ policies that critics say have been intended to suppress Democratic votes.

Bush, Karl Rove, the president’s deputy chief of staff, and other Republican political advisers have highlighted voting rights issues and what Rove has called the “growing problem” of Democratic election fraud since Bush took power in the tumultuous election of 2000, a race ultimately decided by the U.S. Supreme Court.

Since 2005, McClatchy Newspapers has found, Bush has appointed at least three U.S. attorneys who had worked in the Justice Department's Civil Rights Division when it was rolling back long-standing voting rights policies aimed at protecting predominantly poor, minority voters.

Another newly installed U.S. attorney, Tim Griffin in Little Rock, Ark., was accused of participating in efforts to suppress Democratic votes in Florida during the 2004 presidential election while he was research director for the Republican National Committee. He's denied any wrongdoing.

Justice Department spokesman Brian Roehrkasse said the four U.S. attorneys weren't chosen only because of their backgrounds in election issues, but “we would expect any U.S. attorney to prosecute voting fraud.”

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[robinlynne]

1. Isn't there one "temp' attorney who was disbarred?

I remember that he quit immediately as soon as the scandal surfaced. Does someone have that info?

[indepat]

2. Just the type needed to seek equal justice under the law. The neocons' entire agenda is corrupt and

rotten to the core, the antithesis to every core value this country has stood for and all who don't see this are fools imo.

[Roland99]

3. Democracy? Whuzzat? They're stacking the deck to steal ALL future elections!!!

[enough]

4. k&r