Posted on 09/24/2010 7:06:46 AM PDT by ken5050
Should be good..The witness is a hero..God bless him..
I missed that part. Thanks for the heads up. Holder already tried sending the man to another job in another state. That’s already a form of harrassment imho.
Yes it was a letter from a Comgressman to Holder and basicly warning him not to do anything to Coats!
Prosecutor: DoJ bias against whites
By: Josh Gerstein
September 24, 2010 10:52 AM EDT
A Justice Department prosecutor, defying his superiors by testifying at a U.S. Civil Rights Commission hearing Friday into the department’s handling of a voter-intimidation case against a fringe African American militant group, blasted “senior political appointees” at Justice for “gutting” the case.
In his opening testimony, prosecutor Christopher Coates also suggested he was working against a dominant Justice Department culture which discouraged enforcement of civil rights laws in a “race-neutral” way that would protect whites as well as blacks.
Coates, a 13-year veteran of the civil rights division who was chief of its voting section until early this year, charged that his supervisors systematically downgraded the case against the New Black Panthers, which was accused of trying to intimidate white voters at the polls in Philadelphia during the 2008 general election. When he objected to his supervisors, Coates said, the Justice Department’s attempt to silence him was part of what he called “the hostile atmosphere that has existed within [Justice’s Civil Rights] Division for a long time against race-neutral enforcement of the Voting Rights Act.”
http://dyn.politico.com/printstory.cfm?uuid=443B995E-A9C4-06C7-E25B87014EB135C3
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/2595514/posts?page=1#1
It was certainly an adverse employment decision on a whistleblower.
Thanks.
wiwi (party affiliation from USCCR):
* Gerald A. Reynolds, Chair (R)– Kansas City attorney and former Assistant Secretary of Education for the Office of Civil Rights.
* Abigail Thernstrom, Vice Chair (R)– Manhattan Institute political scientist and former member of the Massachusetts Board of Education.
* Gail Heriot – (I) University of San Diego law professor.
* Peter N. Kirsanow (R) – Cleveland attorney and former member of the National Labor Relations Board.
* Arlan D. Melendez (D) – Chairman and Chief Executive, Reno-Sparks Indian Colony.
* Ashley L. Taylor, Jr. (R) – Richmond attorney and former Deputy Attorney General of Virginia.
* Michael Yaki (D) – San Francisco attorney and former member of the San Francisco Board of Supervisors.
* Todd F. Gaziano (I)– Senior Fellow in Legal Studies and the Director of the Center for Legal and Judicial Studies at The Heritage Foundation.
THANKS!
“She did not ‘ask’ me -— she TOLD me”
Very disturbing. Is she still running around free as a bird? Like Ayers? Shouldn’t be.
Affairs are legal even if immoral. Voter intimidation going all the way to the white house are criminal.
Lets not be distracted with the Boehner thing.
Yep..read that this morning. Sounds like the Slimes is trying to figure out the most advantageous time to release the unfounded smears in order to help the democrats.
“Voter intimidation going all the way to the white house are criminal.”
TRUTH BUMP!!
Do you know if the letter from the Congressman to Holder is posted on the net anywhere?
Commissioner up now is a democrat Chicago gal(sounds like an obama pal of the first order):
“Professor Heriot graduated with the highest distinction from Northwestern University in 1978, and earned her J.D. cum laude in 1981 from the University of Chicago Law School, where she served as an associate editor of the law review. She is a member of Phi Beta Kappa and the Order of Coif.”
I haven’t seen the Holder letter.
The guy right now is a Democrat and he is hard on Coates Superior.
Yaki was a senior advisor to Nancy Pelosi. That’s all you need to know to explain his behavior
True.
Problem being MSM will be all over Boehner, and remain silent on voter intimidation.
oops..CSPAN has Todd F. Gaziano as a Democrat but it appears he is an Independent.
bfl
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