Remember when the New Black Panther Party sent thugs to intimidate people at a Philadelphia polling place? Then they failed to show up, resulting in an automatic loss of their case, only to have the Obama/Holder Justice Department drop the charges for no reason?
Remember that?
Here’s the video:
Here’s what I wrote before:
I would say that’s voter intimidation. So did the Justice Department. At least under Bush it did. John Fund has the rest of the story:
In the first week of January, the Justice Department filed a civil lawsuit against the New Black Panther Party and three of its members, saying they violated the 1965 Voting Rights Act by scaring voters with the weapon, uniforms and racial slurs. In March, Mr. Bull submitted an affidavit at Justice’s request to support its lawsuit.
When none of the defendants filed any response to the complaint or appeared in federal district court in Philadelphia to answer the suit, it appeared almost certain Justice would have prevailed by default. Instead, the department in May suddenly allowed the party and two of the three defendants to walk away. Against the third defendant, Minister King Samir Shabazz, it sought only an injunction barring him from displaying a weapon within 100 feet of a Philadelphia polling place for the next three years—action that’s already illegal under existing law.
So, why did they just let it go? No one really knows.
Now we might. A former Justice Department attorney is saying it was because of race:
J. Christian Adams, now an attorney in Virginia and a conservative blogger, says he and the other Justice Department lawyers working on the case were ordered to dismiss it.
“I mean we were told, ‘Drop the charges against the New Black Panther Party,’” Adams told Fox News, adding that political appointees Loretta King, acting head of the civil rights division, and Steve Rosenbaum, an attorney with the division since 2003, ordered the dismissal.
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The Justice Department has defended its move to drop the case, saying it obtained an injunction against one member to keep him away from polling stations while dismissing charges against the others “based on a careful assessment of the facts and the law.”
But Adams told Fox News that politics and race was at play in the dismissal.
“There is a pervasive hostility within the civil rights division at the Justice Department toward these sorts of cases,” Adams told Fox News’ Megyn Kelly.
Adams says the dismissal is a symptom of the Obama administration’s reverse racism and that the Justice Department will not pursue voting rights cases against white victims.
“In voting, that will be the case over the next few years, there’s no doubt about it,” he said.
I’ve always hated that term, “reverse-racism.” It’s either racism or it’s not.
Here’s the interview Adams had with Megyn Kelly. He states he was told the case was dropped because, “Well, you know the Department has said that the facts and the law don’t support going forward on the case.”
Um, they had already won the case by default. What exactly did they have to lose? There was no reason to drop the case other than race. If there was, please explain it to me, because I’d really like to know.
