Bush Administration Political Appointees Overrule Career Lawyers in DOJ Civil Rights Division

By: Erick Erickson (Diary)  |  May 29th at 11:12 AM  | 

Democrats are in an uproar over new revelations that the Bush Administration’s political appointees in the Department of Justice overruled career lawyers in the Civil Rights Division who were in civil litigation against a group of white conservative activists engaged in voter intimidation tactics on Election Day. More troubling, the Department of Justice had obtained a default judgment against the defendants and the political appointees | Read More »