President George W. Bush signs Voting Rights Act Extension (7/27/06):

My administration will vigorously enforce the provisions of this law, and we will defend it in court.

Congressional Black Caucus meeting (1/26/05):

At the conclusion of yesterday’s 40-minute meeting, Bush – who attended along with Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice – was asked by Rep. Jesse Jackson Jr (D-2nd) whether he would support the re-authorization of a portion of the Voting Rights Act that must be approved every 25 years (It will come up for consideration next year).

“I don’t know anything about the 1965 Voting Rights Act,” Jackson recalled the president saying in an interview with the Chicago Defender.

He said that a hurried Bush went on to say that “when the legislation comes before me, I’ll take a look at it, but I don’t know about it to comment any more than that, but we will look at it when it comes to us.”

Politics Alleged In Voting Cases (WaPo 1/23/06):

Some lawyers who have recently left the Civil Rights Division…have taken the unusual step of publicly criticizing the way voting matters have been handled. Other former and current employees have discussed the controversy on the condition of anonymity for fear of retribution.
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The Bush administration has also initiated relatively few cases under Section 2, the main anti-discrimination provision of the Voting Rights Act, filing seven lawsuits over the past five years — including the department’s first reverse-discrimination complaint on behalf of white voters. The only case involving black voters was begun under the previous administration and formally filed by transitional leadership in early 2001.

By comparison, department records show, 14 Section 2 lawsuits were filed during the last two years of Bill Clinton’s presidency alone.

And in case all else fails, there’s always Bush’s first Supreme Court selection Chief Justice John Roberts

When it came time for renewal in 1982, a red flag that signaled much of the South’s disdain for the act again rose high. In memo after memo to his boss Attorney General William French Smith, then assistant attorney general John Roberts blasted the act as “intrusive interference” and flatly demanded that Reagan veto its renewal.”

If all of this isn’t enough, it appears as if Republicans in Congress have included their own version of Bush’s famous signing statements.