Reply #33: more on Bradley Schlozman

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http://www.fairness.com/resources/relation?relation_id=54362

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March 2007: "Missouri's photo ID law was struck down by the state Supreme Court in October 2006, just before the midterm elections. But by then, the Bush administration had used a loophole in the Patriot Act to appoint Bradley Schlozman, who had supervised the voting section of the Civil Rights Division of the DOJ at headquarters in Washington, as Graves' successor in the Western District. The loophole was closed by a vote of the Senate on Tuesday, but in March of 2006 Alberto Gonzales was able to make Schlozman a U.S. attorney without seeking confirmation from the Senate."

http://www.salon.com/news/feature/2007/03/21/us_attorneys/index.html Bradley J. Schlozman Esq. is/has ...

How U.S. attorneys were used to spread voter-fraud fears: Long before it fired eight U.S. attorneys for political reasons, the Bush administration had politicized their jobs by making them push a favo March 21, 2007


by Mark Follman, Alex Koppelman and Jonathan Vanian (Salon)
QUOTE: ...sometimes pursuing an investigation can be just as effective as a conviction in providing that ammunition and creating an impression with the public that some sort of electoral reform is necessary. The battle between Democrats and Republicans over photo ID has been most contentious in so-called battleground states like New Mexico.