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The voter-intimidation case involving the New Black Panther Party absolutely won’t go away. Three new things yesterday and today. First, a great column at Human Events by the indefatigable Rep. Frank Wolf:
In light of Coates’ stunning testimony, it is time for the department to reveal precisely what motivated the dismissal of this case. The attorney general should immediately direct his staff to turn over the information requested from the commission and members of Congress. He should also order those responsible for the dismissal to appear before the commission. I will continue to work to hold Atty. Gen. Holder and the department accountable for their equal enforcement of the law.
Second, an editorial at the Washington Times:
This controversy is about the integrity of the voting process, which is the heart of our constitutional republic. Mr. Holder would serve the public interest by permitting Ms. Fernandes to testify under oath … Allowing testimony from other lawyers present at those meetings could help clear up any misunderstanding about the policies the Obama administration is pursuing. If the attorney general continues to stonewall transparency, it looks like he’s hiding something.
The Washington Times also carried a news story:
The U.S. Commission on Civil Rights wants Attorney General H. Holder Jr., to allow Justice Department employees to testify in its investigation of “deep-seated and shockingly common attitudes favoring racially-selective enforcement of the law” within the department’s Civil Rights Division….The Justice Department has ordered employees subpoenaed by the commission for testimony to refuse to appear and has offered what the commission has called “questionable and sweeping privilege claims” in refusing to turn over documents sought as part of the probe.
Meanwhile, as mentioned in an editorial linked to here yesterday, Holder’s DoJ has promoted the attorney largely responsible for stonewalling rather than adequately complying with FOIA requests related to the Panther case:
Among the new hires are: Sharyn Tejani comes from the National Partnership for Women and Families, a hotbed of liberal activism, where she served as one of the lead attorneys filing a Supreme Court brief supporting an explicitly race-based refusal to promote white firemen in New Haven, Conn….New Voting Section deputy chief Sarabeth Donovan is known for overseeing the department’s responses, or in this case extreme unresponsiveness, to Freedom of Information Act requests involving the New Black Panther controversy.
Holder’s stonewalling can’t work. The truth will out. The truth appears to involve a pattern of race-based enforcement decisions at DoJ. Such a policy is unlawful. Period.
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David W| 10.12.10 @ 1:03PM
So what? If Holder continues to stonewall what's the problem, for him anyway. He can continue, he has the full support of the President, and any supoena from Congress is apparently a "paper tiger" that has no pull or meaning. Congress can send a baseball player to jail for a lie, what can they do to an adminstration for the same thing? apparently nothing.
bobmontgomery| 10.12.10 @ 1:05PM
Eric Holder, dating back to his days in the Clinton Administration, and probably before, seems to have made a career out of selective enforcement of the law. His favoritism in cases of fraud, terror and intimidation apparently goes to blacks and terrorists,thugs and drug users and dealers. The Democrat Party must be very proud.
Harry | 10.12.10 @ 2:28PM
Obama and his administration is out there this week beating the transparency drum as it relates to campaign finance laws. I guess that doesn't apply to this case. This just goes another step to expose the Obama administration for what it is...dishonest.
Franklin| 10.12.10 @ 3:52PM
I don't see any movement on this as long as there are people in power that call up down, forward backward, and wet dry. You get nowhere using logic or even common sense with someone that one day screams that their enemies are promoting violence then the next day say they'd like to 'strangle' their enemies.
Something may come of this investigation the day rational people are put in power.
We start in November.
wodiej| 10.12.10 @ 4:26PM
I see a half full glass about to be filled up Nov. 2nd when conservatives, not Republicans, take both the House and Senate back and begin to restore sanity and order back to government.
Will| 10.12.10 @ 6:01PM
Many thanks to Rep. Wolf for his persistent efforts. This case is critical, not only to address the actual facts of this particular matter, but to be a treatise on a politically correct environment that has existed for decades and caused so much grief to so many. Thank you!
Oldefarte| 10.13.10 @ 12:42PM
The AG and his boss will not reverse/change their political stripes [aka, THE CHICAGO WAY]. In addition to their tactics @ D of J [this, along with their filing a federal lawsuit against Arizona over immigration]; are using the Interior Dept to place a offshore oil drilling moratorium [and withhold drilling permits,etc] to destroy Louisiana's and the entire Gulf Coast's economy from the elimination of oil industry jobs; are using the State Dept to politically attack Israel; are sending the US military to its destruction in limiting its fighting in the Middle East; and are using political espionage to prevent voting ballots from timely reaching our military members to eliminate their votes for the upcoming November elections. If anyone out there is still so dumb and stupid that they do no understand the subversive political tactics now being used by this administration, then they need to grow some brain cells!!!!!!!!!