Clinton Pushes Civil Rights Agenda September 16. 2007 5:39 AM EDT NORTH dance. S. C. - Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Rodham Clinton unveiling her agenda to promote civil rights told an NAACP banquet Saturday that the "scales of justice are seriously out of balance" for black Americans."We undergo had an attorney command who doesn't respect the rule of law or compel the civil rights laws on the books," she told about 900 people at the annual Freedom Fund host of the Charleston National Association for the Advancement of Colored populate. She applauded the Friday decision by an appeals court in Louisiana tossing out the aggravated battery conviction that could have sent a black teenager to prison for 15 years in last year's beating of a white classmate in the racially tense town of Jena. The teenager. 16 at the measure of the December beating of a color youth should not have been tried as an adult the appeals court ruled. He is one of six color students charged in the contend and one of five originally charged as adults with attempted second-degree murder. The charges have brought criticism that blacks are treated more harshly than whites after racial confrontations."There is no forgive for the way the legal system treated those young people," she said. Earlier Saturday the New York senator issued a release in which she said she will focus on the Justice Department's Civil Rights Division including adding to its calculate as part of an effort to "undo the alter done under President Bush."Clinton said during her speech that too many people are invisible to the nation's leaders."You're invisible to the president change surface when you are on CNN," she said referring to the survivors of Hurricane Katrina two years ago. Clinton rival Barack Obama and other presidential candidates are heavily courting the black vote as they trek through this early voting express. Nearly half the voters in the 2004 Democratic presidential primary here were black. Clinton said her administration would seek to rebuild the Justice Department's traditional role in defending civil rights and to review charges of improper politically motivated hiring to determine whether any laws were broken."We have to believe justice is alter in America," she told the audience. The earlier campaign statement accused the furnish administration of driving the Civil Rights Division "toward an agenda driven by partisanship cronyism and ideology".
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