Posted on 03/29/2011 5:29:11 PM PDT by SmithL
In a case that has drawn strong criticism from Republican conservatives, the Justice Department's Office of Professional Responsibility has found no evidence that politics played a role when department attorneys dismissed three defendants from a voting rights lawsuit against the New Black Panther Party.
OPR, which investigates allegations of attorney misconduct, concluded that the government lawyers' work on the lawsuit in 2009 was based on a good-faith assessment of the law and the facts and had a reasonable basis.
"We found no evidence of improper political interference or influence from within or outside the department" and the government attorneys acted appropriately in the exercise of their supervisory duties, OPR said in a letter Tuesday to the chairman of the House Judiciary Committee, Rep. Lamar Smith, R-Texas.
"We found no evidence to support allegations — which were raised during the course of our investigation — that the decision-makers, either in bringing or dismissing the claims, were influenced by the race of the defendants," OPR's letter added.
The lawsuit stemmed from complaints that New Black Panther Party leaders intimidated white voters at a Philadelphia polling place on Election Day in 2008.
Two lawyers who formerly worked in the department's voting rights section of the civil rights division have described what they called hostility from senior officials and career attorneys to pursuing Voting Rights Act violations against minorities alleged to have harassed white voters.
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Im shocked I tell ya!
Of course it was handled appropriately, The Black Panthers can not be racist and they are just paying back those white honkeys that prevented them from voting way back before I was born.
They get a pass! This is retribution time hooyah!
It must be nice to have arms long enough to pat oneself on the back. I’m sure their investigation was thorough. In a related story, Willie Sutton found no wrongdoing in his bankrobbing career.
This is like the 911 Commission (of which Jamie Gorelick was a member) saying there was no fault in creating the wall of separation that prevented the sharing of information between FBI and CIA.
This is a bit like the police investigating themselves and folks being shocked when they find no wrongdoing...
ping
Where’d I leave that picture of Claude Rains? Never seems to be around when you need it ...
"We found no evidence to support allegations...that the decision-makers...were influenced by the race of the defendants,"...
What a steaming pant load.
Does this mean that if the IRS calls that I can tell them I’ll audit myself?
After reading the comment, without looking at the poster name, I knew it was you. LOL!
What part of “My People” claimed by Eric Holder when discussing the case would be problematic for anyone drinking Kool-Aide?
We are better off handling this on our next time.
I want this odious creep (the Big Eared Evil One, the Echolating Muslim Moonbat, or whatever you want to call him) and all of his minions out immediately. The problem is that this is not going to happen, because Americans are not used to being attacked from within the White House itself and are still confused by this. But by 2012 I strongly suspect it’s going to be too late.
I used to scoff at people who said we wouldn’t have elections in 2012, but I’m not so sure anymore.
That’s the pot calling the kettle black.
The lesson is that if you see armed Black Panthers at a polling station, handle it.
What liars.
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