About Fucking Time: Bush-era head of Justice Department voting rights section reassigned.

[Gold Metal Flake]

The Battle for Voting Rights: Could reassignment of the Bush-era head of the Justice Department section charged with protection of voting rights mean real change?


Adam Serwer | January 8, 2010 | web only

Sometime during Christmas week, Christopher Coates, the chief of the Voting Rights Section of the Justice Department, was quietly reassigned to an 18-month detail in the U.S. attorney's office in Charleston, South Carolina. Coates, a longtime career attorney in the Civil Rights Division, became head of the Voting Section in 2007. The previous head, John Tanner, left in 2007 in the midst of an uproar over racially inflammatory remarks.

Coates' replacement, Chris Herren, is a longtime career attorney with an encyclopedic knowledge of voting rights issues whom one Justice Department employee described as being "like Yoda with voting rights." Laughlin McDonald, head of the ACLU's Voting Rights Project, and someone who has worked with Herron on voting rights issues for years, said "I can't really think of a better in that division."

As one Justice Department official put it, "It just feels like things are finally being righted."


Edited for more GD-worthy title. I suck at thread titles.

[Gold Metal Flake]

1. Kick because I hope this brings some election reform.

Does anyone know Chris Herren's feelings about electronic voting machines and hackable servers?

[glitch]

4. K & R for Gawd I hope so. nt

[Solly Mack]

2. k/r

[EFerrari]

3. AFT is right!

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[Gold Metal Flake]

5. Evening punt.

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