Every Single One: The Politicized Hiring of Eric Holder’s Voting Section
I appreciate the effort that went into identifying and tracking down all of this information. Based on the liberal reaction to alleged Bush-era hiring practices, it is relevant to the national conversation.
However, I am disappointed to see “Bay Area Legal Aid” listed as an example of far-left politics. Some of the work done by legal aid organizations aligns with traditional liberal talking points, that’s true, but legal aid offices do address problems of actual injustice. As a conservative attorney, I feel it is my duty to volunteer with my local legal aid organization (which is a private charity rather than a government-sponsored organization) to stop government harrassment of innocent citizens. As a Christian attorney, it is also my duty to volunteer and help people who are truly victimized by other citizens, victims whom the government is simply not helping.
Despite my commitment to our legal system, it is obvious that a lot of people are suffering and not getting the help they need without the intervention of private citizens. For example, I work to help victims of domestic violence get divorces from men who clearly do not deserve to be called “men” (“thugs” or “bruts” would be more appropriate). I am always horrified when I hear that protecting victims of domestic violence, whom the almighty government clearly cannot protect, is an example of leftism. Private citizens taking up the slack left by a failed government in the protection of fellow citizens is conservative through and through.
