Here's how it worked:
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Justice Staff Saw Texas Districting As Illegal
Voting Rights Finding On Map Pushed by DeLay Was Overruled
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/12/01/AR2005120101927_pf.htmlBy Dan Eggen
Washington Post Staff Writer
Friday, December 2, 2005; A01
Justice Department lawyers concluded that the landmark Texas congressional redistricting plan
spearheaded by Rep. Tom DeLay (R) violated the Voting Rights Act, according to a previously
undisclosed memo obtained by The Washington Post. But senior officials overruled them and approved
the plan.
The memo, unanimously endorsed by six lawyers and two analysts in the department's voting section,
said the redistricting plan illegally diluted black and Hispanic voting power in two congressional
districts. It also said the plan eliminated several other districts in which minorities had a
substantial, though not necessarily decisive, influence in elections.
"The State of Texas has not met its burden in showing that the proposed congressional redistricting
plan does not have a discriminatory effect," the memo concluded.
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The Texas case provides another example of conflict between political appointees and many of the
division's career employees. In a separate case, The Post reported last month that a team was
overruled when it recommended rejecting a controversial Georgia voter-identification program that was
later struck down as unconstitutional by a court.
Mark Posner, a longtime Justice Department lawyer who now teaches law at American University, said it
was "highly unusual" for political appointees to overrule a unanimous finding such as the one in the
Texas case.
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A weekly event, I'm sure.
The former head of civil rights quite about 2006 and blew the whistle on all this. Nothing was done
about it.
Thank doG they're gone!!!!!!!!!! Fire the stragglers. They conspired with those who hired them to
violate the civil rights of citizens on a regular basis. That's the same charge brought against
Nixon - failing to perform your job while taking payment for the job. When the person doing the
hiring and the fluky taking the job know the deal - to screw civil rights programs - then it's a
conspiracy.