By Joseph D. Rich, LA Times JOSEPH D. RICH was chief of the voting section in the Justice Department’s civil right division from 1999 to 2005. He now works for the Lawyers’ Committee for Civil Rights Under Law. THE SCANDAL unfolding around the firing of eight U.S. attorneys compels the conclusion that the Bush administration…
By Greg Gordon, McClatchy-Tribune For six years, the Bush administration, aided by Justice Department political appointees, has pursued an aggressive legal effort to restrict voter turnout in key battleground states in ways that favor Republican political candidates, according to former department lawyers and a review of written records. The administration intensified its efforts last year…
By Margaret Talev, McClatchy Newspapers President Bush’s lawyers told the Republican National Committee on Tuesday not to turn over to Congress any e-mails related to the firings last year of eight U.S. attorneys before showing them to the White House. Democrats and Republican critics of the administration said the move suggests that the White House…
by Dave Lindorff, http://www.opednews.com/ The enemies of the Constitution are growing in number and are to be found now, not just in the White House and the Congress, but also in state capitals, from Washington to Vermont. Not only do we have a president and vice president who are almost daily undermining and rending at…
