Inside The Bush DoJ's Purge of The Civil Rights Division / Georgia I.D. Law Examined/ TPMuckraker

[KoKo]

Inside The Bush DoJ's Purge of The Civil Rights Division
By Paul Kiel - April 17, 2007, 3:41 PM

Over the past six years, the Bush administration has aggressively reshaped the Justice Department's Civil Rights Division. Many career analysts and attorneys have either been transferred or driven out; their replacements are long on conservative credentials and short on civil rights experience.

Here's an inside account of what it's like inside from Toby Moore, a redistricting expert with the division's voting section until the spring of 2006. Like many of his colleagues, he left due to the hostile atmosphere in the section, where he says there was a pattern of selective intimidation towards career staff.

According to Moore, his supervisor and the political appointees in the section consistently criticized his work because it didn't jibe with their pre-drawn conclusions. That was bad enough, he said, but the real trouble came after he and three colleagues recommended opposing a Georgia voter I.D. law pushed by Republicans. After the recommendation, which clashed with the views of Moore's superiors, they reprimanded him for not adequately analyzing the evidence and accused him of mistreating his Republican colleague, with whom he'd had frequent disagreements. But it got worse. Moore said that his Republican superiors even monitored his emails, eventually filing a complaint against him with the Justice Department's Office of Professional Responsibility for allegedly disclosing privileged information in one email (he was cleared of wrongdoing). Fed up, and worried that it was too dangerous to his professional future to remain there, he left.


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Other evidence pointed even more strongly to nefarious motives behind the legislation. According to the Recommendation Memorandum, George state Rep. Sue Burmeister, the sponsor of the bill, told 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."

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[hootinholler]

1. Thanks for posting this!

Needed a kick.

-Hoot

[Uncle Joe]

2. Kicked and recommended

Thanks for the thread KoKo

[Supersedeas]

3. Bushist vision of 'Merican democracy.

[KoKo]

4. kick.....

[The Count]

5. Them gold-digging blacks! getting rich from voting!Thank God they nipped that

in the bud! :sarcasm:

[Subdivisions]

6. I wonder how many other Mr. Moores there are

out there , black, white or otherwise, that are being put through hell in order for this criminal monster to continue snaking its tendrils down deep into the soul of America.