Posted on 08/17/2010 4:30:48 PM PDT by jazusamo
The hypocrisy of the Obama Justice Department has reached staggering proportions on a host of issues stemming from the New Black Panther voter-intimidation case. Such systemic evasion of justice breeds lawlessness.
The Justice Department's latest thumb in the eye of its critics came in an Aug. 11 letter from Assistant Attorney General Thomas E. Perez to the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights. Mr. Perez told the commission that he will continue blocking testimony from veteran civil rights attorney Christopher Coates because Mr. Coates' stationing in South Carolina since mid-January means he is not "the appropriate witness to testify regarding current [Civil Rights] Division policies."
There are two immediate problems with this contention. First, Mr. Coates is in South Carolina only because Mr. Perez transferred him there to remove him from the commission's subpoena jurisdiction. The commission subpoenaed Mr. Coates in November, before the move to South Carolina, but Mr. Perez ignored the law requiring him to honor commission subpoenas.
Second, Mr. Perez's own actions belie his supposed concern with contemporaneity. Consider that the commission had never asked Mr. Perez to testify for the simple reason that he wasn't even at the department when Mr. Coates was overruled and the Black Panther cases were abandoned. Yet Mr. Perez insisted on going to the commission in the stead of Mr. Coates...
(Excerpt) Read more at washingtontimes.com ...
The DOJ had to wrap this Black Panther fiasco up quickly so they could go after Joe Arpaio.
...I’m glad the Wash Times is still publishing...it gets ignored by the MSM, but it keeps on trying anyway...thanks jazusamo for posting this srticle.
Perez and Holder are blatantly breaking the law and no one is doing a thing about it, at least the USCCR is trying.
The criminals are running the DOJ. It’s a “historical” thing.
I say good for The Washington Times, they’ve stayed on top of this. Fox news has covered a fair amount and Pajamas Media has published a fair amount by Chris Adams, Hans von Spakowsky and a couple others. The enemedia has been practically silent on it.
Welcome to the summer of distractions.
Designed to allow outright theft to occur in front of us while even more devious actions are going unannounced.
So much for transparency. What an lie to the public.
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I would hope november elections will go some distance to get congress to start investigations of this sort of abuse. Love to see it - about 18 months overdue.
I would hope November elections will go some distance to get congress to start investigations of this sort of abuse. Love to see it - about 18 months overdue.
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Never will happen. Only the women in the OP have balls and a spine.
Come January, there will be subpoena power in Congress which should make a point of getting to the bottom of this.
It’s already spread to Pelosi — not that the members of the Party of the Single Party State need much encouragement in this area. Thanks jazusamo.
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