Reply #182: DU Hisyspit: Marjorie Cohn: U.S. Attorneys and Voting Rights - The New Watergate

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Hissyspit Mon Apr-16-07 06:28 AM
Marjorie Cohn: U.S. Attorneys and Voting Rights - The New Watergate
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U.S. Attorneys and Voting Rights: The New Watergate
By Marjorie Cohn, AlterNet. Posted April 16, 2007.
http://www.alternet.org/rights/50598
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Former staffers in the Justice Department's civil rights division said they were "repeatedly overruled when they objected to Republican actions, ranging from Georgia's voter ID law to Tom DeLay's Texas redistricting, that they believed would effectively disenfranchise African-American voters," Krugman added.

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Shortly after the Watergate break-in, President Richard Nixon and his loyal chief of staff H.R. Haldeman spoke in the old Executive Office Building. Their conversation was taped, but 18.5 minutes were erased. This gap incriminated Nixon in the cover-up which eventually led to his impeachment and resignation.

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