Posted on 07/13/2009 4:02:53 AM PDT by Scanian
Key House Republicans are charging Attorney General Eric Holder of playing politics at the Justice Department.
Rep. Frank Wolf (R-Va.) said Holder has ignored at least three letters sent over the past month from Republicans demanding to know why Justice dismissed charges of voter intimidation filed against two members of the New Black Panther Party for Self-Defense (NBPP).
NBPP National Chairman Milik Zulu Shabazz and party member Jerry Jackson both faces charges for violating the Voting Rights Act for engaging in coercion, threats and intimidation and attempted coercion, threats, and intimidation of voters and those aiding voters at a Philadelphia polling station on November 4th, 2008.
Charges against the Black Panthers were originally filed when President George W. Bush was in power.
A spokeswoman for Justice said facts did not back up the charges, and that career officials at Justice, not political appointees, decided to drop the charges.
Following a thorough review, a career attorney in the Civil Rights Division determined that the facts and the law did not support pursuing the claims against three of the defendants, spokeswoman Tracy Schmaler said. As a result, the Department dismissed those claims.
Committee sources said they expected Justice to send a letter on Monday to Wolf and other members, and to brief Republicans on why the charges were dropped.
Holder let stand one of the four original charges though. The leader of the black nationalist groups Philadelphia chapter, Minister King Samir Shabazz, is charged with brandishing a deadly weapon, a nightstick, outside of the polls.
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agree....it'll end up like this....
...only in a vacuum or Star Trek NG episode,
it'll only succeeds in a PC-ism World.
therefore , the Liberals will declare it
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