Rove Wants a Partisan Justice Department

McClatchy News ran a story that pointed out that the replacement attorneys for the fired U.S. Attorneys have partisan records and were part of a Karl Rove plan to politicize the Justice Department. His plan was to use so-called "voter fraud" cases to intimidate groups that were registering poor people and minorities as voters. The following is a quote from the story that you can read by clicking on the link in this entry's title:

Last April, while the Justice Department and the White House were planning the firings, Rove gave a speech in Washington to the Republican National Lawyers Association. He ticked off 11 states that he said could be pivotal in 2008. Bush has appointed new U.S. attorneys in nine of them since 2005: Florida, Colorado, Wisconsin, Minnesota, Iowa, Arkansas, Michigan, Nevada and New Mexico. U.S. attorneys in the latter four were among those fired.

Since the black-robed coup of 2000 the Bush Justice Department, (and isn't that an oxymoron), has pushed such things as voter identification laws, redistricting, and has worked to push out experienced civil rights attorneys and replaced them with conservative ideologues. Our suspicion is that Rove was scared by the closeness of the vote in Florida, realized that his candidate didn't win that election honestly, and wanted to make sure it never happened again. His tool was going to be the U.S. Justice Department. His aim was to make sure that a Republican president was elected in 2008.

Right now, Karl Rove needs a Republican victory in 2008 or else he is going to be remembered as the man who lost the Congress and the Presidency for the GOP. This is not how he wants to be remembered when he leaves politics. Of course, like with everything else this gang touches, the plan to replace the U.S. Attorneys failed because of incompetence.