Posted on 05/20/2010 8:04:14 AM PDT by jazusamo
Something is wrong with a Justice Department that treats its own attorneys worse than it treats civil-rights violators those attorneys would prosecute. On Friday, after evasive testimony by Justice official Thomas E. Perez to the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights, department attorney J. Christian Adams resigned in obvious disgust at the deep-sixing of a voter intimidation case against members of the New Black Panther Party.
Mr. Adams and Justice's former voting rights section chief, Christopher Coates, are the two attorneys most responsible for pursuing the case against the Black Panthers videotaped in menacing poses outside a Philadelphia polling place on Election Day 2008. Both lawyers have long histories of defending civil rights of Americans of all ethnicities. Mr. Coates began his career working on the Voting Rights Project of the American Civil Liberties Union. But when apparatchiks chosen by the Obama administration overruled Mr. Coates and Mr. Adams by dismissing most sanctions in the already-won Black Panther case, liberal media outlets began portraying the two voting rights lawyers as right-wing activists.
At the end of last year, Justice "reassigned" Mr. Coates to the U.S. Attorney's office in Charleston, S.C., where - conveniently for his bosses - he was out of reach of the subpoena power of the Civil Rights Commission. Meanwhile, the department left Mr. Adams victim to a legal pincer movement created by its own flouting of federal law...
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...the more the Black Panther case stays alive, the more it hurts Obama....and that’s good.
Methinks Holder’s days are numbered.
Exactly, and The Washington Times has done an excellent job of keeping it alive and now that Adams has resigned it could resuscitate the case.
Agreed...This along with a few other fiascos don't bode well for him.
“It should be the first order of business when the new congress convenes in January, 2011.”
....indeed it should!...Congress should get up enough backbone to hold hearings into this...they mustn’t let fear of the race card bluff them down.
Yeah, the bus is warming up at 1600 Penn Ave.
“Methinks Holder’s days are numbered.”
His replacement will just be a more competent fascist.
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Don’t know about Coates but I believe Adams is white from a pic I saw that was supposedly him.
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