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...Today it is viewed as an adversary." Attorney Ted Shaw, who used to work there, derides it as the "Justless" Department. The critics charge that under Reynolds the civil rights division has gone badly wrong. "All it has done in the voting area is fight black voters," says Armand Derfner of the Joint Center for Political Studies. The division has cut back on enforcement of housing-discrimination laws, challenged even voluntary school- busing desegregation programs, and is now making an all-out assault on the affirmative action employment agreements that it actively helped fashion in previous Administrations...