Ashcroft's Legacy at the DOJ and its Impact on Missouri Voters

In case you missed it, Salon has another comprehensive piece on the politicization of the US Justice Department and its mission under the Bush administration to create issues and push institutional election reforms that will create a legal framework to ensure Republican victories.

Bush's long history of politicizing justice
It's not only the U.S. attorneys who are threatened by partisan politics. Since Day One, the Bush administration has been quietly dismantling the DOJ's Civil Rights Division.

The piece is important because it helps shed more light on what’s been happening behind the curtain at Justice over the past few years. It’s no wonder that folks like Delbert Scott and Bill Deeken feel the need to keep pushing regressive photo ID schemes here in Missouri, when the propaganda and orchestration is coming straight from the top.

Among other things, the piece mentions:

• the calculated shift from professional attorneys to political hacks in the Civil Rights Division under Bush and Ashcroft’s DOJ
• the plan to design redistricting schemes to secure Republican victories
• the reverse of long standing policies to support photo ID legislation in order to suppress voter turnout
• and more

READ THE WHOLE STORY HERE:

http://www.salon.com/news/feature/2007/03/30/civil_rights/print.html

more links of interest (the hyperlink function doesn't seem to be working)

http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0307/3287.html

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/01/22/AR2006012200984_pf.html

http://www.firedupmissouri.com/politics_rules_bush_justice

http://www.firedupmissouri.com/graves_forced_out