‘Bush league justice’ in Civil Rights Division

David Edwards and Muriel Kane, Raw Story

The Civil Rights Division has been one of the jewels of the Justice Department. Founded in 1957, it played a leading role in the elimination of segregation and protection of minority rights. But according to MSNBC’s Dan Abrams, the Bush administration “has turned the division against the very people it was designed to protect.”

Since 2001, the division has not pursued a single case of voting discrimination against African-Americans. In recent years, less than half of new hires have had any civil rights experience — and the background of almost half of those has actually been in defending employers against discrimination lawsuits or fighting against affirmative action.

Instead of protecting civil rights, the division has focused its attention on cases of “voter fraud,” which tend to result in the disenfranchisement of minorities, on “reverse discrimination” against whites, and on claims by Christians of discrimination against religious speech.

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