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Posts Tagged ‘New Black Panther Party’

• Injustice at Justice; Voting Rights Chief Sent South

  Posted December 29th, 2009 at 5:17pm in Rule of Law with 15 comments

  The Washington Times is reporting today that the career chief of the Voting Section at the Civil Rights Division of the Department of Justice, Christopher Coates, is being removed and sent to the U.S. Attorney’s office in Charleston, South Carolina, for 18 months. This is significant for many reasons, but specifically because he was the chief [...] More

• Investigating the Black Panther Case

  Posted September 14th, 2009 at 2:44pm in Rule of Law with 6 comments

  The Washington Times is reporting that the Office of Professional Responsibility (OPR) at the Department of Justice has opened an investigation into the dismissal of the voter-intimidation case against the New Black Panther party. Republican congressmen Lamar Smith and Frank Wolf, who have been doggedly pursuing the Civil Rights Division trying to get answers as [...] More

• Morning Bell: Politics Before Justice at Obama’s DOJ

  Posted August 31st, 2009 at 9:21am in Protect America, Rule of Law with 52 comments

  On Friday of last week, following the announcement that Attorney General Eric Holder would appoint a prosecutor to re-investigate the CIA’s treatment of detainees, former Vice President Dick Cheney taped an interview with Fox News. During the interview, which aired yesterday on Fox News Sunday, Cheney describes Holder’s decision as an “outrageous political act” that [...] More

• The Need for Change in Philadelphia – Not Threatening Voters

  Posted January 22nd, 2009 at 10:02am in Rule of Law with 6 comments

  Prior to the November election, the media was full of stories and claims that John McCain and those terrible Republicans would be trying to intimidate voters in order to win the election. Barack Obama’s lawyer even wrote a letter to the Justice Department demanding that a special prosecutor be appointed to investigate McCain and [...] More