Cross-posted at Project Vote's Voting Matters Blog

by Michael McDunnah

A New York Times story this week reported that U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder is planning to return the Justice Department’s Civil Rights Division to its historical mission: protecting the civil rights of Americans. According to the article, the new attorney general is committed to “a revival of high-impact civil rights enforcement against policies…where statistics show that minorities fare disproportionately poorly,” including housing, employment, lending practices, and voting rights.

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Project Vote's Voting Rights & Election News Roundup: March 30, 2007 Edition

By Erin Ferns

This an entry in a series of blogs to keep people informed on current election reform and voting rights issues in the news.

Featured Story of the Week:

Justice Department tugged to the right: Under Bush, the department has been tainted by politics, many say - Los Angeles Times

In the wake of the Department of Justice's firings, revelations emerged of "partisan political priorities" that have plagued the DOJ since the start of the Bush Administration, according to a Los Angeles Times story Sunday.

In addition to the two of the eight recently fired attorneys who purportedly lost their jobs for not actively pursuing voter fraud cases, former DOJ Civil Rights Division career officials are claiming to have felt similar pressures that ultimately had an impact on the voting rights of minority and other marginalized communities.

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it is my interest in analyzing the justifications given by these right-wing hacks. It is my belief that they are using the language of affirmative action and turning it upside down to justify turning the Civil Rights Division into nothing more than the old Spoils System which got a president assassinated in 1881.

Quotes are from Charlie Savage's article in the Boston Globe

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