The cynicism of this effort is breath taking. Two consecutive top law enforcement officers of the United States, Ashcroft and Gonzalez, used the office of U.S.
Attorney General to promote the fiction of voter fraud knowing full well that the net effect of the effort had nothing to do with the phantom problem they claimed to attack. There is no evidence that a single U.S. Attorney spoke up to object. The efforts were really a fabrication to justify the highly restrictive legislation promoted at the state level to reduce voter participation in heavily Democratic constituencies.
This U.S. Attorney scandal is supposedly about a process of removing government officials without proper deliberation. The development of that scandal opened up a much larger issue; the planned execution of an effort to stop people form voting simply based on their voting preferences and their inability to resist new laws due to their relatively weak political status.
How low with those charged to enforce the laws sink if they’re willing to engage in a sham effort to stop a nonexistent crime which allows them to promote and commit the very real crime of voter suppression?
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See “Politicized U.S. Attorneys,” a preliminary analysis of the McClatchy article examining U.S. Attorney appointments in the nine states mentioned in the contest of the 2006 midterm Congressional elections.
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