President Bush has decided to replace the top two officials on the Commission on Civil Rights and is expected to appoint a longtime critic of affirmative action to head the commission. The civil rights commission has been critical of the Bush administration’s civil rights policies and on how the president won the 2000 election in Florida. Losing their posts are chair Mary Frances Berry and Vice Chair Cruz Reynoso. The Washington Times reports Bush is expected to appoint former Virginia deputy attorney general Ashley Taylor, and Gerald Reynolds, the former assistant secretary in the Department of Education’s civil rights office. Reynolds is the former legal analyst for the Center for Equal Opportunity — a conservative think tank that opposed affirmative action. In 1997 Reynolds criticized affirmative action as a “corrupt system of preferences, set-asides and quotas.” Two years ago more than two dozen groups, including the NAACP and NOW, opposed his nomination to a post in the Education Department. Bush sidestepped the opposition by appointing Reynolds while the Senate was on recess. Reynolds nomination to head the civil rights commission however does not require Senate confirmation.