Voting Section Chief Out Amid Controversy (New Black Panthers Intimidation Case)

MainJustice.com ^ | Sunday, December 27, 2009 | Ryan J. Reilly

[kristinn]

Veteran Civil Rights Division attorney Christopher Coates is no longer chief of the Voting Section, according to the division’s Web site.

There was no official announcement of the personnel change in the long-troubled section, which most recently has been embroiled in the controversy over the New Black Panther Party voter intimidation case. Main Justice noticed the change on the Voting Section Web site.

Taking over for Coates in an acting role is Chris Herren, a deputy chief of the section, according to the Web site.

Alejandro Miyar, a spokesman for the Civil Rights Division, wasn’t available for comment Sunday. Coates did not immediately respond to an email seeking comment. It could not be learned whether Coates left the department entirely or transferred to another post.

Coates signed off on the controversial voter intimidation complaint against the New Black Panther Party and three of its members, filed in the waning days of the George W. Bush administration. The Obama DOJ’s decision to dismiss most of the charges in May has become a political controversy for the administration.

Coates also supervised J. Christian Adams, the career Voting Section attorney who compiled the Black Panther case. Adams, who has a history of conservative advocacy, was hired in 2005 by then-Civil Rights Division official Bradley Scholzman, a Bush political appointee who improperly politicized the hiring process in the division, the department’s Inspector General and Office of Professional Responsibility found in a joint investigation.

Coates had been listed on the Web site as chief of the Voting Section as late as Dec. 20.

[rcrngroup]

Congress will never do it. It is up to the patriots in the American military, or states led by Texas & Olkahoma that would secede from the Union, followed hopefully by 8-10 other Southern or Western states. Please remember that the commie pig 0bozo and the ENTIRE socialist demoRAT politicians will never allow themselves to be voted out of office or the demoRAT party to ever relinquish power that they are currently enslaving America with. It is better to die fighting for freedom rather than live as a slave. We are already slaves to a socialist, despot tyranny, led by the usurper, commie pig in chief 0bozo.

[rcrngroup]

It just could be that a coup is the worst of all choices.

I think that living under a socialist-fascist-commie pig usurper like 0bozo, and a thug despot regime of socialist demoRAT pigs is the worst of all choices. Thomas Jefferson, whom the RATs love to think as the leader of their current demoRAT party declared that we need to water the tree of liberty now & then with the blood of patriots and that of tyrants. Neither 0bozo or the socialist demoRATs will ever voluntarily give up the reigns of gubmint (executive, legislative & judicial) now that they are firmly in control.... or at least they think they are. Socialism never retreats on its own, without tremendous bloodshed & war. The leftists led by 0bozo will think nothing of interning as many people as necessary to secure his hold on absolute power. It is time for either states to take action & secede, or for the military to step in.

[GladesGuru]

If I was represented by Al Franken, I might also have arrived at your conclusion. And, there is much that is far too factual to make dismissing your predictions either easy or comfortable.

However, I remain convinced that when the mass of Americans awaken (the “Sleeping Giant” of which Isoroku Yamamato spoke), the Congress Critters will both listen and flush out the socialism they allowed to creep into America.