Clinton pushes civil rights agenda

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Source: AP via Yahoo News

Clinton pushes civil rights agenda

By BRUCE SMITH, Associated Press Writer
1 hour, 34 minutes ago

NORTH CHARLESTON, S.C. - Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Rodham Clinton, unveiling her agenda to promote civil rights, told an NAACP banquet Saturday that the "scales of justice are seriously out of balance" for black Americans.

"We have had an attorney general who doesn't respect the rule of law or enforce the civil rights laws on the books," she told about 900 people at the annual Freedom Fund Banquet of the Charleston National Association for the Advancement of Colored People.

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Earlier Saturday, the New York senator issued a release in which she said she will focus on the Justice Department's Civil Rights Division, including adding to its budget, as part of an effort to "undo the damage done under President Bush."

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Clinton's other proposals include combatting voter ID laws, letting ex-felons who have completed their sentences regain their right to vote and making Election Day a federal holiday to make voting easier. She said she would press for Washington, D.C., to get a seat in the House of Representatives.







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Outstanding points by Sen. Clinton. I'm especially pleased with her committment to focus on the Justice Department's Civil Rights Division, which the Bush Administration has politicized shamelessly. They have hired people with little or no experience in civil rights; whose only qualification was being a GOP supporter.

They have left the career lawyers in the Civil Rights Division out of key decisions.

And of course, Sen. Clinton is on the right side of the issue most important to me right now: DC voting rights!!!

[stlsaxman]

1. Thank you, Senator! Now please keep these points in your speeches to all groups you address...

not just groups concerned with this issue. the desecration of the Justice Dept. is everyones concern. keep this issue up front and, a Gore candidacy notwithstanding, i will put you at the top of those who garner my support.

[BootinUp]

2. Making election day a federal holiday is such a good idea

I am not saying its Hillary's idea, but I hope it happens some day is all.