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Report: Bush Found Wanting on Civil Rights

The U.S. Civil Rights Commission has completed a report on civil rights under the Bush Administration. It is unflattering to Bush. The Commission has voted to delay release of the report until after the election. But, it's up on their website. From the Times article:

The report says Mr. Bush "has neither exhibited leadership on pressing civil rights issues, nor taken actions that matched his words" on the subject. It finds fault with Mr. Bush's funding requests for civil rights enforcement; his positions on voting rights, educational opportunity and affirmative action; and his actions against hate crimes.

It did have one nice thing to say about him:

Mr. Bush is committed to help people with disabilities and praised him for "a commendably diverse cabinet and moderately diverse judiciary."

Diverse judiciary? Guess they don't mean diversity in judicial philosophy.

The full report is here (pdf).

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