Yesterday President Bush announced his intention to nominate Wan J. Kim to be Assistant Attorney General for Civil Rights at the Department of Justice. Mr. Kim currently serves as Deputy Assistant Attorney General in the Civil Rights Division. That Division, among other duties, handles cases involving religious discrimination.
The South Korean paper Chosun Ilbo reports that Kim will be the third Korean-American to be appointed to a sub-cabinet position in the Bush administration. According to the paper, earlier in his career Kim served as a trial attorney in the Justice Department's Terrorism and Violent Crime section where he handled the case against Oklahoma City bomber Timothy McVeigh.
