Last week, Hans von Spakovsky testified before the Senate Rules Committee that he’d been something of a wallflower when he worked at the Justice Department’s Civil Rights Division. His critics had it all wrong, he said. Despite claims that he’d led the Department’s efforts to overturn the voting rights section’s traditional work protecting African-American voters — using the division’s power instead to spread the myth of voter fraud and purge state voter rolls — von Spakovsky said that he’d merely been there in an advisory capacity. People asked his opinion and he gave it, that’s all.
This is a companion discussion topic for the original entry at https://talkingpointsmemo.com/?p=180599