Attorney General Michael Mukasey is an unethical, immoral, typical Bush flunky. He is the despicable head of a Bushite politicized Department of Justice, worse than Alberto Gonzalez and John Ashcroft.
Mukasey does not serve justice, the law, and the American people, but covers Bush's posterior from accountability for criminal policies like torture, and shames himself by blatant service to the president and the Republican Party against the law and the Constitution.
I've written many times about the reprehensible Mukasey and his terrible disdain for the law. Just plug in Mukasey on the Quick Search at this site.
Now he is involved in the Ohio Republican Party lawsuit that was an attempt at voter suppression but what rejected by the Supreme Court. I wrote about it
here.
The
Bush White House won't accept the Supreme Court rejection of the GOP tactic and has decided to help suppress the votes in Ohio via Mukasey and its politicized DOJ.
Scott Horton at Harper's writes:
"With the clock ticking, however, the Republican Party still had one trick up its sleeve. It decided to instruct the Justice Department to implement its plan” doing an end-run around the Supreme Court's ruling. The Washington Post reports the details: House minority leader John Boehner, the senior figure of the Ohio G.O.P. wrote Attorney General Mukasey demanding that he implement the Republican voter suppression plan in the guise of an investigation of "voter fraud." When Mukasey did not respond to Boehner's prompts, he went to the White House. The White House in turn asked the Justice Department to look into the matter.
"The sequence of steps here demonstrates how the G.O.P. views the Justice Department as a simple tool for the implementation of their voter suppression projects. Will Mukasey play their game and enlist the Justice Department in an transparent effort to disenfranchise new, overwhelmingly Democratic voters? The Inspector General’s report on the cashiered U.S. Attorneys concluded that similar manipulation of the Justice Department by Karl Rove in the 2006 election cycle was highly abusive. Mukasey applauded this report. But Mukasey has so far been painfully faithful to his master in the White House, and this may be no exception.
"If Mukasey acts favorably on the G.O.P. request, he will be using his office and the Justice Department for a political purpose. The federal voting rights statute nowhere requires a check against parallel records which the Ohio Republicans want, nor is that test a logical indicator of voting fraud. The fraud would occur, for instance, if a person registered and attempted to vote in a name not his own because he was not entitled to vote or because he wanted to cast multiple ballots. But careful investigations of such claims over the last several years have turned up no cases in which these widely broadcast suspicions are validated.
"Curiously, Mukasey's law firm did the right thing when he was a partner there. It served as pro bono counsel to a group of Ohio community action organizations whosuccessfully opposed the G.O.P. initiatives on voter suppression in a federal court lawsuit, securing a stipulated settlement with the Ohio Secretary of State in which she agreed that she would not implement just the sort of program that the Republicans are now seeking. It was that litigation success for voter's rights advocates that led to the Republican Party's current desperation tactics. But the current appeal puts a direct question to Mukasey: will he and his department stand on the side of the voters seeking to exercise the most fundamental of the democratic franchises? Or will they become partisan tools intent on disenfranchising citizens because of their suspicions about how those citizens will vote? The question could not be more sharply focused."
Mukasey and the Bush politicized DOJ are on the hot seat, placed there by, Dubya. However, given his contemptible short history as a Bush lackey, Mukasey may make the DOJ totally an arm of the criminal, Republican, Bush regime and commit the crime of official partisan voter suppression. That this is even a considered option speaks volumes about Mukasey.
Impeachment should then be back on the table for the Bush regime including Michael Mukasey.
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