"Hate crimes and police misconduct are a renewed focus.... as part of an 18 percent budget increase this year, the largest in the division’s history"
Related: The End of American Justice
Yeah, "hate crimes" have to be a focus while TORTURE is APPROVED!!
Welcome to Obomber's AmeriKa, sig heil!
"Civil rights division takes higher profile at Justice" by Jerry Markon, Washington Post | June 27, 2010
WASHINGTON — When Thomas E. Perez took over the Justice Department’s Civil Rights Division in October, he found an office that was a shadow of its historic self.
Nearly 70 percent of the lawyers had left between 2003 and 2007, amid allegations the Bush administration was politicizing hiring. Internal watchdogs concluded that the division’s former head had refused to hire lawyers he labeled “commies’’ and had transferred one for allegedly writing in “ebonics,’’ which the official denied. Civil rights groups said the unit had lost its traditional focus.
“We had to do some healing,’’ said Perez, 48, a former Maryland official and deputy assistant attorney general under Republican and Democratic presidents. “We had to restore the partnership between the career staff and the political leadership. And frankly, certain civil rights laws were not being enforced.’’
But that is all in the past. Rove and Bush and Gonzalez and the rest all got off despite the Democrapic bluster. Seem like so long ago, right, Amurka?
Justice Department officials say the division — created in 1957 to help the Freedom Riders and students seeking to integrate public schools — has stepped up enforcement of employment, disability rights, and other antidiscrimination laws.
Yeah, government sets up something for one thing and it morphs into an all-encompassing something else every time.
Think cameras on the street corners for terrorists now issuing tickets, AmeriKa!
Hate crimes and police misconduct are a renewed focus, and several section chiefs from the Bush era have left. More than 30 people have been or are about to be hired as part of an 18 percent budget increase this year, the largest in the division’s history. It will bring in 102 new people.
Well, we know the coded interest behind that.
And HOW SAD that AmeriKa need a focus upon POLICE BRUTALITY!!
We can NEVER AGAIN LECTURE OTHERS on CIVIL RIGHTS without looking like complete asses!!
Recently, the division has taken a leading role in preparing for an Obama administration lawsuit against Arizona over the state’s new immigration law....
The Justice Department fighting federal law.... and times have changed from the Bush years in what way?
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"Pardon sought for boxing champion; Fans seek justice for maligned Jack Johnson" by Martin Griffith, Associated Press | June 27, 2010
RENO — One hundred years later....
The Johnson faithful will gather here July 2-4 for the centennial of the July 4, 1910, bout to celebrate his life. They also hope to build on a resolution passed by Congress last year urging President Obama to issue the pardon....
Want to be a REAL HERO, Obama!?
How about ISSUING ONE for Leonard Peltier first?
He is STILL ALIVE and could USE IT!
Last year, the Justice Department refused to endorse the pardon resolution, saying its general policy is not to process pardons for dead people. However, the department did note two such pardons — one each by Presidents Clinton and George W. Bush....
Senator John McCain, Republican of Arizona, who sponsored the pardon resolution along with Representative Peter King, Republican of New York, said he welcomed renewed support for the cause in Reno. He told the Associated Press that he is still hopeful that Obama will sign the pardon. “I know the president, once he looks carefully at this issue, would want to correct a grave injustice done.’’
A former boxer and an avid boxing fan, Senate majority leader Harry Reid, Democrat of Nevada, helped spearhead passage of the resolution....
Odd choice of words from the MSM newspaper.
Related: Reid the Racist
Feeling guilty, is he?--more--"
Also see: A new turn for racial history and a family’s pride
Not to be disrespectful, but is that news?
Is it worthy of a front-page feature?
