DOJ Civil Rights Lawyer Receives Cash Award for Suppressing Minority Voters

[Omaha Steve]

http://scoop.epluribusmedia.org/story/2007/4/28/19023/3956

by Publius Revolts
Sat Apr 28, 2007 at 08:32:38 PM EST

This morning's Washington Post story by Dan Eggen and Amy Goldstein tells the story of Department of Justice Civil Rights Division, Voting Section Lawyer Joshua Rogers, a University of Mississippi law school graduate who had been a clerk for U.S. District Judge Charles W. Pickering Sr. about the time the judge's nomination by President Bush to a federal appeals court provoked opposition by congressional Democrats, who contended that Pickering was hostile to civil rights.

According to the Post story, " few months after he arrived, that lawyer was given a cash award by the department."

Rogers, earlier named by the Post’s Eggen as the only member of the Justice Department team to dissent from a recommendation by career staff in the Voting Section to object under Section 5 of the Voting Rights Act to a Georgia law that would have required voters to present photo identification at the polls, was given a cash award, which Talking Points Memo reported yesterday was the Justice Department’s top cash honor, the Attorney General’s Award, as a result. In contrast, as Paul Kiel of TPM Muckraker earlier noted, all four career staffers who recommended objecting to the Georgia law were purged

[whistle]

1. Follow the money

[tanyev]

2. K & R