Michael Yaki has been reappointed by the House to another term on the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights, which recently lost two conservative members. The commission had skewed conservative since George W. Bush had essentially gamed the system with two "independent" appointees who were actually Republicans. Two conservatives were replaced by two new appointees from the White House months ago.
The greatest achievement of the commissions' conservatives was helping to mainstream right wing conspiracies surrounding the narrowing of the New Black Panther Party voter intimidation case, culminating thus far in an internal DoJ investigation that found officials on all sides had acted appropriately and there had been no political pressure from above to dismiss the case. With the ideological balance on the commission restored, I suspect we won't be seeing as much of their work on Fox News anymore.
