The following article by Joseph P. Williams was posted on the U.S. News and World Report website January 12, 2018:
President Trump’s campaign to move the courts to the right is in full force, despite Democratic objections.
Howard Nielson Jr. is a former Justice Department lawyer in the Bush administration who helped lead an infamous purge of left-leaning job candidates at the Justice Department – a power move considered so heinous that an inspector general’s report recommended those involved should never work in government again.
Thomas Farr spent much of his early career as a campaign attorney for the late Sen. Jesse Helms, the legendary North Carolina Republican and villain to a generation of civil rights advocates. While he was largely behind the scenes, the activists say, Farr was one of the architects of Helms’ plots to suppress black turnout, allowing the senator and former segregationist DIxiecrat to maintain an iron grip on power for more than three decades. Continue reading “Speeding to the Right”