Political Cortex: Brain Food for the Body Politic

The Republican White House's racist disenfranchisement of minority voters has reached a new low:

The Justice Department has barred staff attorneys from offering recommendations in major Voting Rights Act cases, marking a significant change in the procedures meant to insulate such decisions from politics, congressional aides and current and former employees familiar with the issue said.

Disclosure of the change comes amid growing public criticism of Justice Department decisions to approve Republican-engineered plans in Texas and Georgia that were found to hurt minority voters by career staff attorneys who analyzed the plans. Political appointees overruled staff findings in both cases.

The GOP has relentlessly attacked every Democratic power bloc; union members, senior citizens, and minorities have been targeted by the Republican Party's pursuit of a one-party electoral system, a move predicated on the fact that eliminating the competition is easier than stealing elections by vote-rigging.