July 01, 2010
— Ace Hot stuff.
A former Justice Department attorney who resigned last month in protest of the Obama administration's handling of a voter intimidation case involving the New Black Panther Party accused a top Justice official of lying under oath about the circumstances surrounding the decision to drop the case.J. Christian Adams, now an attorney in Virginia and a blogger for Pajamas Media, told Fox News in an exclusive interview that aired Wednesday that Assistant Attorney General Thomas Perez provided false testimony in May to the United States Commission on Civil Rights, which is investigating the department's decision to drop charges against three members of the radical group in a case that the government won.
Perez told the commission that the facts and the law didn't support the case against the group.
"I know about the truthÂ…and I know what the truth is and I know to say the facts and law don't support the Black Panther case is not true," Adams said, adding that Perez ignored his warnings not to provide false testimony.
"We made it very clear that continuing to say that the facts and the law don't support this case would not be consistent with the truth," he said.
Here's his interview on FoxNews:
Here is an older interview on this, with a liberal civil rights lawyer named Bartle Bull:
He says this is plainly a civil rights violation. (Duh!)
J. Christian Adams wrote about his resignation-in-protest last week for Pajamas Media.
oon after his confirmation, Attorney General Eric Holder labeled us a nation of cowards, a people supposedly unwilling or afraid to discuss race. Based on my experience as an attorney at the Civil Rights Division at the Justice Department, Holder has far more to fear from that discussion than do the rest of us.If we had that frank, truthful discussion about race, weÂ’d learn that the Obama administration doesnÂ’t believe some civil rights laws protect every American. The Bush Civil Rights Division was willing to protect all Americans from racial discrimination; during the Obama years, the Holder years, only some Americans will be protected. Americans have a right to know and judge the racial policies of the administration they elected in 2008.
The dismissal of the voter intimidation lawsuit against armed New Black Panthers in Philadelphia is the most prominent example of this hostility toward race-neutral enforcement of civil rights laws. But that dismissal is far from the only manifestation of the beliefs infesting the Department. Many other cases and decisions — some of which I will detail below — are in question and deserve scrutiny.
On Election Day 2008, armed men wearing the uniforms and jackboots of the New Black Panther Party were posted in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, at the entrance to a polling site. They brandished a weapon and intimidated voters. After the election, the Civil Rights Division at the U.S. Department of Justice brought a voter intimidation case against the New Black Panther Party and these armed thugs. I, and other Justice lawyers, obtained an entry of default after the defendants ignored the case against them.
Before a final judgment could be entered, however, our superiors ordered dismissal of the claims.
Congress has sought answers from the Department about why the Black Panther case was dismissed. The Department has repeatedly claimed the “facts and law” did not support the case — which of course is false. Others have speculated about a White House involvement. But I believe the best explanation for the corrupt dismissal of the case is the profound hostility by the Obama Civil Rights Division in the Justice Department towards a race-neutral enforcement of civil rights laws.
This hostility was — and is — on open display within the Department of Justice.
Example after example exists where this dirty little secret manifested itself within the Department and affected Department policy.
Attorney General Holder and his political appointees have traveled the country claiming that they have “reopened” the Civil Rights Division. The Civil Rights Division is “back in business,” they announce, without a sniff of media scrutiny. In time, statistics and other information will present truth to this lie, as the Bush Civil Rights Division had a more robust civil rights agenda than the Obama Civil Rights Division. During the Bush years, the Civil Rights Division brought more cases in many areas of the law, particularly voting rights.
Race-neutral enforcement of civil rights law is a principle nearly all Americans agree with. Equality before the law has been cherished since the founding, and a bloody Civil War sacrificed generations of treasure and life to enshrine race equality into constitutional law.
Thanks to JackStraw and Vic.
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Posted by: Jeff B. at July 01, 2010 12:32 PM (l1KFP)
Posted by: Rev. Wright at July 01, 2010 12:34 PM (6SGWt)
The left - shredding The Constitution, one page at a time. And proud of it.
Posted by: Soap MacTavish at July 01, 2010 12:35 PM (554T5)
Posted by: George Orwell at July 01, 2010 12:35 PM (AZGON)
Posted by: Nevergiveup at July 01, 2010 12:36 PM (0GFWk)
If a DOJ thug from Bush had been accused thusly it would be the opening story in every news organization for a month.
Posted by: Vic at July 01, 2010 12:36 PM (6taRI)
Posted by: George Orwell at July 01, 2010 12:39 PM (AZGON)
Who's up for a good ol fashioned civil war?
(Raises hand)
Posted by: Sgt Martin Riggs at July 01, 2010 12:40 PM (HpT9p)
Oh yeah. Just like the woke up and made sure to get all the facts on Clenis, right?
Posted by: Farmer Joe at July 01, 2010 12:41 PM (z4es9)
Posted by: dfbaskwill at July 01, 2010 12:44 PM (ndlFj)
Posted by: George Orwell at July 01, 2010 12:44 PM (AZGON)
This was obviously a political racial decision, how can you drop a case when you have a default judgement. You already won.
Posted by: Guy Fawkes at July 01, 2010 12:47 PM (T0bhq)
Posted by: TheQuietMan at July 01, 2010 12:48 PM (1Jaio)
The only guy 'punished' will be allowed near polling places carrying a club by the 2012 election. Really. He got very limited probation, can't go near the polls with a club for two years.
Not that I forsee any problems with this precedent.
Posted by: Beagle at July 01, 2010 12:48 PM (sOtz/)
Posted by: Michelle Obama at July 01, 2010 12:49 PM (AZGON)
Posted by: GarandFan at July 01, 2010 12:50 PM (6mwMs)
I don't see how they can justify that. Gingles v. Thornburg effective ended "at large elections" but based on the story about the NY town last week, it only ended it in the South. When SCOTUS says that is OK to discriminate based on race and location even though it is forbidden by the civil rights act and the 14th Amendment you know they care nothing for the Constitution.
Posted by: Vic at July 01, 2010 12:52 PM (6taRI)
Posted by: Orrin Hatch at July 01, 2010 12:52 PM (YmPwQ)
Posted by: Damn Sockpuppet at July 01, 2010 12:54 PM (YmPwQ)
Posted by: Elena Kagan at July 01, 2010 12:55 PM (AZGON)
Posted by: joncelli at July 01, 2010 12:58 PM (RD7QR)
Of course Congress and the judiciary will give DoJ, Holder and Osama Obama his own self a free pass. After all, they're "leveling the playing field."
Isn't this the same kind of shit Grand Dragon Byrd fought for, only with the roles reversed?
Time for the Traitor-in-Chief to give another speech!
Anyone else would be led away in cuffs right about now.
Posted by: MrScribbler at July 01, 2010 01:02 PM (Ulu3i)
Posted by: Eric Holder at July 01, 2010 01:04 PM (zgZzy)
Jeez Loooeez, you don't have to be a rocket scientist to figure out that the media is not covering this because they have all their crack reporters busy digging up dirt on Republicans and Tea Partyers. They can't be everywhere, you nimrods.
Sheesh.
Posted by: LGoPs at July 01, 2010 01:06 PM (lHn6+)
Posted by: Wyatt Earp at July 01, 2010 01:08 PM (zgZzy)
I'm not conspiracy-minded, but one of the best pieces of evidence I think is out there for how Obama is a Manchurian candidate was the interview of Percy Sutton - the Black Panthers' attorney - on NY1, where he explains how he came to know Barack Obama.
He said he was asked by an advisor to one of the world's wealthiest men to write a letter to get Obama into Harvard Law.
How the hell was this what... 22 year-old kid? already on the radar of "one of the world's wealthiest men" and the attorney for the Black Panthers? I don't care what background Obama came from, or what his academic reputation may have been, that's damned strange. He's been groomed for the epic destruction he's carrying out for a long, long time by powerful people.
Everybody tried to say, "Oh, that's old Percy, he's getting senile." Now he's dead and no one can ask any more questions, that is, even if anybody in a position of authority had a mind to. Thank God that interview is still up on youtube and hasn't mysteriously disappeared.
Obama and his admin. are now the Black Panthers' attorneys.
Posted by: La Mauvaise New Yorkaise at July 01, 2010 01:13 PM (8uZ8A)
Eric Holder and Michellebacca listened to Rev. Wright and Malcom X, even if Barry was asleep in church for 20 years.
Posted by: sifty at July 01, 2010 01:14 PM (JR2D9)
I distinctly remember various R's drooling over Holder and telling us what a standup guy he is. He was going to return the DOJ to the high standards of yesteryear. Some "dirty" folks pointed out that the guy was a fraud and political opportunist but that came out in the wash and all sorts of good R's in the Senate voted to confirm, just like they will vote to confirm Kagan.
Posted by: ed at July 01, 2010 01:15 PM (Urhve)
Posted by: JackStraw at July 01, 2010 01:31 PM (VW9/y)
Posted by: ed at July 01, 2010 01:36 PM (Urhve)
Posted by: Orrin Hatch at July 01, 2010 01:37 PM (AZGON)
It was just about a year ago that Obama fired Inspector General, Gerald Walpin, for investigating his buddy Kevin Johnson's abuse of Americorp grants.
Remember that? Johnson was paying kids to wash his car and run errands for him with taxpayer money. Oh, and some of it was being used for political purposes.
What ever came of that firing?
Nothing if I recall.
It's almost impossible to keep track of all the illegal dealings going on with this administration. If only there were a profession, separate from the government, whose mission it was to investigate and report to the public on corruption in high places.
Posted by: Clarence Thomas at July 01, 2010 01:37 PM (QoR4a)
Posted by: AmishDude at July 01, 2010 01:44 PM (T0NGe)
Why go to the mat for this group?
Either Obama owes them a favor from long ago or it's just a gratuitous thumb in the eye of whitey.
Given Obama's arrogance and racist hatred of whites, I think the 2nd is as equally likely as the first.
What's anyone gonna do about it? Don't you remember? He won.
Posted by: Warden at July 01, 2010 01:48 PM (QoR4a)
Posted by: JackStraw at July 01, 2010 02:03 PM (VW9/y)
Did I say scary ? I meant scariest buncha dudes since Rupaul .
Skinny little racist fucks .
Holder is Ramsey Clark .
Posted by: awkward davies at July 01, 2010 02:13 PM (B4e7Q)
Posted by: ed at July 01, 2010 05:36 PM (Urhve)
I distinctly remember people -- could it have been at HA, land of squishy Pillsbury Doughboy Ed Morrissey? -- saying it wasn't worth it for Repubs to oppose Holder, that they should keep their powder dry for those important battles in the future.
Thanks to the surrender monkeys in Congress and ball-less "conservatives" in the media, we've reached a point where the Constitution and everything else we revered about America is dead.
Oh, wait. It isn't worth questioning this travesty, either. Holder knows what he's doing, and is simply trying to face down the "race-cowards" in the country. We should wait for an important issue to get upset about....
Get used to it, crackers.
Posted by: MrScribbler at July 01, 2010 02:16 PM (Ulu3i)
I hope this goes somewhere because it's getting pretty ridiculous in America, these days.
Posted by: progressoverpeace at July 01, 2010 02:38 PM (Qp4DT)
I distinctly remember people -- could it have been at HA, land of squishy Pillsbury Doughboy Ed Morrissey? -- saying it wasn't worth it for Repubs to oppose Holder, that they should keep their powder dry for those important battles in the future.
Thanks to the surrender monkeys in Congress and ball-less "conservatives" in the media, we've reached a point where the Constitution and everything else we revered about America is dead.
Posted by: MrScribbler at July 01, 2010 06:16 PM (Ulu3i)
Yep. It was the same set of the Vichy right who were screaming about "not dying on this hill" or some such idiotic bullshit. They are one-trick ponies, and their trick is stale and useless.
Posted by: progressoverpeace at July 01, 2010 02:40 PM (Qp4DT)
What is different from the "we knew" to the now is you have an actual lawyer from the commission with inside knowledge accusing him of perjury.
As Sheriff Joe would say, "this is a big fuckin' deal".
Posted by: Vic at July 01, 2010 02:44 PM (6taRI)
Posted by: Doc at July 01, 2010 03:30 PM (riwHb)
Power to the People! Kill Whitey!!!!
Posted by: Zombie Chris Farley at July 01, 2010 04:38 PM (kmEfr)
Coates and I learned about the hostility towards equal enforcement of the civil rights laws long before United States v. New Black Panther Party. Coates brought, and we won, the case of United States v. Ike Brown arising out of Mississippi.
Brown was the head of the Democratic Party in Noxubee County, a majority black county. The party ran the Democratic primaries, which served as de facto general elections, and Brown made no secret about his desire to see every government office in the county held by a black officeholder. Brown ran a Tammany Hall-style political operation. During one election, he literally stuffed illegal ballots he knew were marked for black candidates through an optical scanner in front of a crowd of angry citizens shouting provisions of Mississippi law at him.
“You ain’t dealing with Mississippi law, this is Ike Brown’s law,” he replied...
...He allowed squads of “assistors” to pollute the voting sites and impose “assistance,” telling black voters how to vote inside the booth — in many cases marking the ballots for the voters. During one election, teams of federal observers counted hundreds of verified examples of illegal assistance. Brown lawlessly disqualified white candidates from running for office. He published the names of 174 white citizens in the newspaper, and said they would be subject to challenge if they tried to vote.Ike Brown institutionalized racial lawlessness, and brazenly victimized white voters during the 2003 and 2007 elections. And yet, many in the Voting Section never wanted the Department even to investigate the matter.
They voiced explicit opposition to Coates about investigating the discrimination. Superiors were reluctant to recommend to political appointees approval of a lawsuit. After the case was filed, the hostility continued. Most attorneys — except one brave woman — refused to work on the matter with Coates. Hostility pervaded the Voting Section, directed at Coates personally and also towards the theory of the case.
I also encountered open skepticism about the Ike Brown case after I was assigned to work on it in 2005. All manner of reasoning was offered to me regarding why the case should not have been brought.
Posted by: Deety at July 01, 2010 05:04 PM (aVzyR)
Posted by: Denny Crane at July 01, 2010 06:18 PM (I+7Zv)
NAACP and Black Panthers.... Just racist by another name.. Same hate... same style...I wonder who is "keeping them down" now?... Mabe it's the Party that wanted to keep slavery (the Democrates) ran By the President ( a Black Man)? Or Is it just ignorance in a diffrent color?
Posted by: Dw Pepper at July 01, 2010 06:57 PM (8b9o/)
BTW her name is Jennifer Rubin, Weekly Standard
http://tinyurl.com/32eb7eh
Have I mentioned I hate not being able to link directly? The link is to the Weekly Standard article on the subject, called Friends in High Places. It names names, those behind the decisions.
At least two political appointees need major punishment, at least four should be fired, and the DOJ needs a top-down cleanout - with a fire hose.
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