JOHN ASHCROFT, UGH.

EDITED TO ADD: A Missouri-born and -bred friend pointed out that I may be jumping the gun here, since “Chapter 1” of Jeanne D’Arc’s indictment involves fairly complex Missouri politics (opposing a specific strategy for desegregating schools is not the same as praising segregation), and although “Chapter 2” looks supersketchy and 1950s-literacy-test-like I really don’t know enough about it to link to it as if I understood what was going on. So, consider this your invitation to look into this stuff and figure out what you think. This gives some fairly basic reasons to be skeptical of Ashcroft’s record on race though.