Cynthia Tucker offers this Atlanta Journal Constitution column, which begins: “Former metro Atlantan Hans von Spakovsky is among the GOP hacks who perverted the U.S. Department of Justice– trashing constitutional principles, rewarding partisanship over competence and converting the entire machinery into an arm of the Republican Party. His specialty was suppressing voting by Americans of color, who are more likely to support Democrats; he played a starring role in a nationwide effort to disenfranchise poor blacks, Latinos and Native Americans.”