The U.S. attorney firings scandal has laid bare the administration’s — and particularly Karl Rove’s — preoccupation with prosecuting voter fraud. But there’s a flip side to this coin. The Justice Department’s Civil Rights Division has virtually abandoned its traditional role, undertaken since the 1965 Voting Rights Act, of actively protecting African American voters from discrimination.
This is a companion discussion topic for the original entry at https://talkingpointsmemo.com/?p=181088