Panel blasts Panther case dismissal [calls Justice's defense 'weak']

The Washington Times ^ | August 4, 2009 | Jerry Seper

[chuck_the_tv_out]

The U.S. Commission on Civil Rights is demanding that the Justice Department explain why it recently dismissed a civil complaint against members of the New Black Panther Party who disrupted a Philadelphia polling place during last year's election, saying the department has offered only "weak justifications."

Commission Chairman Gerald A. Reynolds, a former deputy associate attorney general under President George W. Bush, said he fears the legal precedent set by the department in its May decision to drop the case might encourage "other hate groups" to act similarly at polling locations in the future.

Mr. Reynolds also charged that other groups might not have been treated so leniently.

"If you swap out the New Black Panther Party in this case for neo-Nazi groups or the Ku Klux Klan, you likely would have had a different outcome," he told The Washington Times in a telephone interview Monday.

"A single law, a single rule should be applied across the board.

[Soothesayer]

Those are Barack’s boyz. He stick with his own bail em out.

[dominic flandry]

“Some are more equal than others.” George Orwell.

[Dallas59]

[sinanju]

Trouble is, it looks real scuzzy.

This little matter is not going away. It’s going to grow and fester as the New Media continues to poke at it.

[Gargantua]

Because DJ Jazzy Prez Zer0banana appointed Eric (dick) Holder to head up Justice, and now dey ain't beez no mo jusstiss, dass fo' shoh! Ooooooo-weeeee!

;-/

[jessduntno]

Commissioner Reynolds

Commission Chairman Gerald A. Reynolds, a former deputy associate attorney general under President George W. Bush, said he fears the legal precedent set by the department in its May decision to drop the case might encourage "other hate groups" to act similarly at polling locations in the future.

Geez, do you think?

[OldDeckHand]

As best I can tell, the New York Times hasn't published a single story on this incident, nor has it published a story on the dropping of the case by Obama's DOJ.

Also, they have yet to report the firing of the independent Inspector General, Gerald Walpin. And yet, they want us to believe that they're the nation's newspaper of record.

[elpadre]

Republicans take a page from the Dem playbook - demand an investigation by independent counsel.

[devistate one four]

Can you say independent prosecutor.

[TBP]

Barry don’t want no honkies doin’ no votin’, yo.