NYT editorial, "US Attorneys, Reloaded": Schlozman installed to help GOP win pivotal Mo. Senate race

[DeepModem Mom]

Editorial
U.S. Attorneys, Reloaded
Published: May 10, 2007

As the United States attorney scandal grows, so does the number of prosecutors who seem to have been pushed out for partisan political reasons. Another highly suspicious case has emerged in the appointment of Bradley Schlozman, a controversial elections lawyer, to replace a respected United States attorney in Missouri. From the facts available, it looks like a main reason for installing Mr. Schlozman was to help Republicans win a pivotal Missouri Senate race.

Jim Talent, the Republican incumbent, was facing a strong challenge from Claire McCaskill last year when the United States attorney, Todd Graves, resigned suddenly. Mr. Graves suspects that he may have been pushed out in part because he refused to support a baseless lawsuit against the state of Missouri that could have led to voters’ being wrongly removed from the rolls.

Mr. Graves was replaced by Mr. Schlozman, a high-level Justice Department lawyer who had made his name in the Bush administration by helping to turn the department away from its historic commitment to protecting the voting rights of minorities. Mr. Schlozman was one of the political appointees who approved Tom DeLay’s Texas redistricting plan and Georgia’s voter ID law, over the objection of career lawyers on the staff, who insisted that both violated the Voting Rights Act. McClatchy Newspapers reported that Mr. Schlozman also has been accused of hiring Justice Department lawyers based on their political party.

Mr. Schlozman injected the United States attorney’s office directly into the Talent-McCaskill race. Days before the election, he announced indictments of four people who were registering voters for the liberal group Acorn on charges of submitting false registration forms. The Republicans turned the indictments into an issue in the campaign, although Ms. McCaskill won the election anyway. Congress should investigate whether the indictments violated Justice Department guidelines, which say that election crime investigations should not be conducted right before an election, because they can themselves become a campaign issue.

Mr. Schlozman’s short stint in Missouri — he left after about a year — appears to be another case of the Bush administration’s politicizing federal prosecutors’ offices. Mr. Graves was reportedly on a list to be fired, and clues are emerging about why. He said this week that when he interviewed for the job, he was asked to name one attribute that describes him. “I said independent,” he said. “Apparently, that was the wrong attribute.”...

http://www.nytimes.com/2007/05/10/opinion/10thu1.html

[aquart]

1. Yet no one will impeach.

Because there are still so many illegally-elected Republicans in Congress. And the White House. They hold the votes that belong to US. They poison our justice system as surely as our air, water, and food.

[Erika]

2. The republicans are dirty, dirty, dirty

and politically corrupt. But we all knew that.

[Bozita]

3. I just love the smell of impeachment in the morning!

[hvn_nbr_2]

10. You must be smelling it from the kitchen. It's not on the table... Yet. nt

[usregimechange]

4. Slime

[SpiralHawk]

5. GigaSlime. Republicons are lacking in all honor

Slimealicious Evil Doers.

[Botany]

6. Rove 101 How to steal elections; Step # 1 ... stop the other side from voting

"Mr. Graves suspects that he may have been pushed out in part because he refused to support a
baseless lawsuit against the state of Missouri that could have led to voters’ being wrongly
removed from the rolls." NY Time 5/10/2007

Florida 2000 @ least 70,000 blacks were wrongly stripped from their right to vote after
Jeb Bush, Choice Point, DBT, and Katherine Harris purged them from being eligible to
vote because they were "felons."

Florida 2000 resulted in HAVA which gave more power to "control elections" to Rove &
company. It was not until 2007 that "we" found out that HAVA which made it the law
that everybody should vote electronically also allowed partisan election officials to
"route" election returns through the computers in Chattanooga, TN that also hosted
bush/ Cheney 2004 and the R.N.C.'s data.

Ohio 2004 @ least 350,000 voters were removed voter roles ( or is it rolls?) because
of "house keeping" that was needed to clean up different county's B.O.E.'s registrations
lists. Ken Blackwell, Ohio G.O.P. / Cuyahoga County B.O.E. head Robert Bennett, Franklin
County's (Columbus) Matt Dammschroder, and Lucas County's (Toledo) Bernadette Noe (Coingate)
among others worked on this project.

Ohio 2004 resulted in A.C.V.R. a phony voting rights group headed by the former chief attorney of
bush/Cheney 2004, Mark F. "Thor" Hearn who pushed the issue of illegal Democratic (black)
voters @ a show trial held in Columbus, OH in March of 2005. The hearing was chaired by the
man who pushed HAVA through Congress and Jack Abramoff contact Bob Ney of Ohio.

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So when will the N.Y. Times have their Judy Miller moment an apologize for helping to suppress
the truth about 2004?

<The Washington Post immediately dismissed allegations of fraud as ''conspiracy theories,''(1) and The New York
Times declared that ''there is no evidence of vote theft or errors on a large scale.''(2)>*

* http://www.rollingstone.com/news/story/10432334/was_the_2004_election_stolen

[RedEarth]

7. KR

[Robbien]

8. How many more are keeping quiet about doing this exact same thing

There are so many possibilities of loyal bushie USA's being able to mess around in state and local elections.

[alcibiades_mystery]

9. And still lost!

:rofl:

[DeepModem Mom]

11. Good point! LOL!

:rofl:

[Politicub]

12. The Times is doing an excellent job covering the story

I'm glad they are on top of it.