The Orwellian administration that brought you the Clean Skies Initiative and No Child Left Behind is at it again. Bush administration lawyers have just filed a Civil Rights Act lawsuit in Mississippi. The naive might view this as a good sign, given that the last Civil Rights Act was filed in 2001 before Bush had a chance to fire all the ethical lawyers - er, I mean, introduce new blood. Not to fear, though. Ever creative, the Bush administration is using the 1965 law to protect the rights of white voters in Mississippi. I'm sure
James Chaney, Andrew Goodman, and Michael Schwerner are glad to have given their lives in the defense of this long-oppressed group. <Malkin = off>
Bush's lawyers have filed a complaint against black officials in Mississippi, alleging that they "participated in numerous racial appeals during primary and general campaigns and have criticized black citizens for supporting white candidates and for forming biracial political coalitions with white candidates."
Get ready for the understatement of the day:
"The main concern we have in the civil rights community isn't necessarily that that DOJ brought this case," Jon Greenbaum, director of the voting rights project for the Washington-based Lawyers Committee for Civil Rights Under Law. "It's that the department is not bringing meritorious cases on behalf of African-American and Native American voters."
It is now apparently illegal for Southern blacks to say publicly that white Republican candidates favor policies that are harmful to human beings. And these clowns have three more years to come up with crap like this.