WP: Civil Rights Focus Shift Roils Staff At Justice

Justice DeLayed, I guess.

brilliantly. First Lott made sure the Census Bureau could not use proportional represntation to insure that the poor were properly accounted for, the state legislature punted, and the "Justice" dept accepted a Republican plan that guaranteed the lost congressional seat would be a Democratic one.

Well done, sirs. You've screwed the poorest of the poor yet again.

This misAdministration has been driving out professionals in all agencies! The EPA is gutted, and Interior Dept full of industry lobbyists! FEMA is ruined. The scope of the corruption, incompetence and criminal malfeasance is enormous, both broad and deep. The full magnitude of these actions is nearly unfathomable, and will probably take generations to uncover and fix. Hopefully we'll have some measure of habitability left.

That quote, I guess, will never be out of date.

n/t

Because, if this is the same division, they most certainly are continuing to file civil rights discrimination complaints. Why, here in Illinois, we have this gem evolving:


U.S. accuses SIU of anti-white bias

November 11, 2005

BY DAVE NEWBART, DAVE MCKINNEY AND CAROL MARIN Staff Reporters

President Bush's administration has threatened to sue Southern Illinois University, alleging its fellowship programs for minority and female students violate federal civil rights laws by discriminating against whites, men and others.

In a move Sen. Barack Obama (D-Ill.) said "just doesn't make sense," the U.S. Justice Department charged that three SIU programs that aim to increase minority enrollment in graduate school exclude whites, other minorities and males, in violation of Title VII of the federal Civil Rights Act.

"The University has engaged in a pattern or practice of intentional discrimination against whites, non-preferred minorities and males,'' says a Justice Department letter sent to the university last week and obtained by the Chicago Sun-Times.

The letter demands the university cease the fellowship programs, or the department's civil rights division will sue SIU by Nov. 18.


http://www.suntimes.com/output/news/cst-nws-siu11.html

Yep, new focus of the Civil Rights Division. Can't have them colored folk and Lesbos getting an edumacation!

George Bush doesn't like black people, indeed!

This administration's sole pupose it seems is to turn back the clock so that only the privileged are served by this government. They are turning back the clock in workplace equity, union organization, safety, equal pay, affirmative action, workers rights, and benefits.

If working people refuse to see this and continue to vote for these bastards they get what they deserve.

this looks to me like there is a very interesting pattern of operation that is certainly not "conservative" at all - but definitely wingnut.

This is very disturbing to me.

Bush and cronies WANT to destroy the US government as we know it, on every level, and they are achieving their aim.

I think they count on being able to get out of Dodge with the loot before the mob notices and comes at them with pitchforks, torches, and a noose.

So far their only "failure" has been FEMA, because the Drowning of New Orleans exposed how they crippled that agency three years too early.

Hekate

I've heard from people working at Justice that when Bush came into office, he pretty much fired most of the attorneys litigating environmental cases and replacing them with attorneys who two months before had been working on the side of the polluters and environmental rapists. This is SOP for the Reich.

Alito would be pleased to see this new direction of the Justice Dept.

Those concerned with women's rights should be as alarmed about workplace discrimination and other aspects of civil rights violations as with the threats to abortion rights.

all are dead under this administration. The people at the top of these government oversite and enforcement responsibilities were hand-picked to thwart any meaningful moves to protect workers rights, equal employment opportunity safeguards, and certainly to utterly destroy affirmative action. The EEOC current body is charged with neglecting anything meaningful and substantive regarding EEO and to focus on feel-good, meaningless fluff as they turn away from overseeing and enforcing wrongful actions to workers. They are hand-in-hand with the Bush Justice Department in turning back the clock. Employers know they have little to fear from either body. The Vice Chair is a person who was appointed to her position despite the warnings and objections of the NAACP blacks in the government workplace who were familiar with her work background and ethics. She is on record as saying that her job is to "protect the process" and between the lines that means damn the actual substance of EEO issues that matter to workers but protect the process so it looks like we are really doing something. It should not be lost on anyone that under this administration the EEO function is desgined to protect employers and their managers as employees--especially minority employee--get kicked in the butts as usual.

Getting rid of everyone involved in EEO and Civil Rights under this administration should be number 10 on the list of a new Dem administration.

.....Nearly 20 percent of the division's lawyers left in fiscal 2005, in part because of a buyout program that some lawyers believe was aimed at pushing out those who did not share the administration's conservative views on civil rights laws. Longtime litigators complain that political appointees have cut them out of hiring and major policy decisions, including approvals of controversial GOP redistricting plans in Mississippi and Texas.

of this problem for years. Right from the beginning of the first Bush term the administration cut back on the number of attorneys handling ADA and Rehab Act complaints. It now takes about three years even to get a hearing, if you get one at all. Cheney is behind this one too.:puke:

board, are being compromised, undermined, usurped and eviscerated of their original purpose.

Busboy may be unhinged, but he'll go to Houston come '08.

It's his middle management cronies' overthrow of our federal system that will really impact our nation for decades.

Is it just me or is there some hope that Roberts & Alito may end up supporting Roe. The court could potentially end up with 7-2 Pro-Roe Majority. It seems both of them, I'm guessing, will probably be more restrictive towards abortion, but at the same time these nominees aren't the originalists the far right had wanted. Both have indicated respect for Stare decisis including these quotes.

Sen. Joe Lieberman says that Judge Alito told him Roe "was precedent on which people, a lot of people, relied, and had been precedent now for decades and therefore deserved great respect." Sen. Lieberman calls this "encouraging."

Sen. Susan Collins reports that, in reference to Roe, "he assured me that he has tremendous respect for precedent and that his approach is not to overturn cases due to a disagreement with how they were originally decided."

I'm not saying be happy about them. But they didn't nominated JRB or Preyer. If they had there would be four originalists on the court! Scary!

LMAO!!!!

2 min after I posted that and I got my hopes up this goes up on Drudge!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!


Alito rejected abortion as a right; paper shows personal view... Developing...

o well. There's always 08

on campus, the more this appears to be a deliberate and intentional Republican white supremacy issue.

had a lot more explaining to do, to get away with the villainy.