Appearing on Democracy Now with Amy Goodman on 10/24/07, Rep. Jerrold Nadler called for the firing of the John Tanner, the head of the Voting Rights section of the Civil Rights Division at the Justice Department. Tanner recently admitted that a law his department backed disenfranchised elderly voters.

Nadler stated, "Obviously, someone who has such prejudices has no business heading the Voting Rights section or any other branch of the government and certainly not being on the Federal Voting Commission, which is supposed to enforce our election laws and our voting rights laws."

Note: I originally caught Tanner's comments on video and posted it at Brad Blog.