November 6, 2007
HE IS WHO THE RIGHT THINKS REAGAN WAS:
Maneuver gave Bush a conservative rights panel (Charlie Savage, November 6, 2007, Boston Globe)
The US Commission on Civil Rights, the nation's 50-year-old watchdog for racism and discrimination, has become a critic of school desegregation efforts and affirmative action ever since the Bush administration used a controversial maneuver to put the agency under conservative control.
more stories like thisDemocrats say the move to create a conservative majority on the eight-member panel violated the spirit of a law requiring that no more than half the commission be of one party. Critics say Bush in effect installed a fifth and sixth Republican on the panel in December 2004, after two commissioners, both Republicans when appointed, reregistered as independents.
Posted by Orrin Judd at November 6, 2007 10:30 AM
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A "controversial manuever"?
Better than continuing to pay Mary Frances Berry.
Posted by: ratbert at November 6, 2007 10:33 PM