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  • ‘Religious freedom,’ ‘liberty’ just ‘code words’ for intolerance, U.S. Civil Rights chairman says

    09/09/2016 4:17:00 AM PDT · by Sub-Driver · 37 replies
    ‘Religious freedom,’ ‘liberty’ just ‘code words’ for intolerance, U.S. Civil Rights chairman says By Mark A. Kellner - Special to The Washington Times - - Thursday, September 8, 2016 The chairman of the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights said that “religious freedom” and “religious liberty” have become merely “code words” for intolerance, “Christian supremacy” and committing every form of identity-politics sin, and thus they must yield before anti-discrimination laws. The remarks, released Thursday in a report on “Peaceful Coexistence: Reconciling Nondiscrimination Principles with Civil Liberties,” is the latest example of an increasingly hostile reception in liberal circles to one of...
  • More on Eric Holder’s Flying Monkeys at Media Matters

    09/18/2012 9:51:07 AM PDT · by jazusamo · 12 replies
    PJ Media ^ | September 17, 2012 | J. Christian Adams
    For more than a year, PJ Media has been reporting on the corrupt press shop inside the Department of Justice. The unit is headed byPress Harpy Tracy Schmaler. We broke a story in July about this relationship after a PJ Media public records request revealed communications between Media Matters’ Matt Gertz and Schmaler about Fast and Furious. (More on the corrupt DOJ press shop: “ Tracy Schmaler’s (and Eric Holder’s) Trip to the Tropics ,” “ DOJ Leaks to TPM Muckraker Florida Will Be Sued Over Voter Rolls ,” “Tracy Schmaler – DOJ Shrieker in Chief.“) Tracy Schmaler Today,...
  • Now Congress Steps to the Plate in the New Black Panther Scandal

    03/30/2011 10:12:12 AM PDT · by jazusamo · 4 replies
    Pajamas Media ^ | March 30, 2011 | J. Christian Adams
    It’s time for the DOJ to cough up information to the House Judiciary Committee and to Congressman Frank Wolf. The Department of Justice has avoided giving Congress and the Commission on Civil Rights answers about the New Black Panther voter intimidation dismissal by pointing to the ongoing review by the Office of Professional Responsibility (OPR). The OPR review is now done and that diversion no longer applies. As reported by Pajamas here and here, the results were exactly as expected: DOJ concludes that DOJ did nothing wrong. DOJ used the OPR investigation to avoid providing information to outside investigators on...
  • The New Black Panther Fix

    03/17/2011 11:53:37 AM PDT · by jazusamo · 4 replies
    NRO/The Corner ^ | March 17, 2011 | Hans A. von Spakovsky
    On January 26 , I asked whether the fix was in at the Justice Department in its internal investigation of the New Black Panther Party case. Unfortunately, it looks as if the answer is a resounding “yes.” Over Christmas, Attorney General Eric Holder appointed left-wing Democratic-party loyalist Robin Ashton to head up the Office of Professional Responsibility (OPR), which is supposed to investigate ethics violations by DOJ lawyers. At the same time, Holder announced in the New York Times that those who dismissed the voter-intimidation lawsuit the DOJ had won did the right thing. Former attorney general Michael Mukasey...
  • Why the Black Panther Case Matters (Excellent Commentary by Hillyer)

    02/03/2011 2:11:54 PM PST · by jazusamo · 5 replies
    The American Spectator ^ | February 3, 2011 | Quin Hillyer
    Attorney General Eric Holder and his minions, along with some of their slavish apologists in the media, are deliberately trafficking in lies of great note. They prevaricate with great enthusiasm, and they excuse lawlessness with fierce disdain. They -- both the Department of Justice (DOJ) officials and their leftist amanuenses pretending to be journalists -- brazenly ignore the public's right to information, and intentionally distract attention from relevant facts and from their own deep beliefs.These conclusions arise from the accumulated weight of evidence in what should be a broadening scandal emanating from the infamous New Black Panther Party voter-intimidation...
  • New Black Panther Party case: The facts are in (Good piece by Rubin)

    01/28/2011 9:40:53 AM PST · by jazusamo · 8 replies · 2+ views
    WaPo/Right Turn ^ | January 27, 2010 | Jennifer Rubin
    The U.S. Commission on Civil Rights came out in December with a draft of its interim report on the New Black Panthers Party scandal. Earlier today a final report was posted on the commission's website, and with it, a flurry of rebuttals and separate statements from a number of the commissioners. The import of these statements should not be minimized. ~snip~As Gaziano and Heriot do, commissioner Peter Kirsanow (a Republican appointee) goes through the evidence of malfeasance by an Obama political appointee, Julie Fernandes: Mr. [Chris] Coates [who headed the NBPP trial team] came forward and testified to the...
  • Witching hour for Black Panthers--Justice continues to block disclosure into department activities

    01/27/2011 7:11:26 PM PST · by jazusamo · 12 replies
    The Washington Times ^ | January 27, 2011 | Editorial
    The Black Panther voter-intimidation scandal is approaching the boiling point on four different burners. Evidence grows that the Justice Department is using illegitimate means to keep a lid on legitimate investigations. Because his department can’t be trusted to police itself, Attorney General Eric H. Holder Jr. needs to appoint a special counsel. On Wednesday, Judicial Watch - a private watchdog - filed a brief in its case seeking release of official memoranda, arguing that government stonewalling, “is about political interference in [Justice’s] decision-making process and [the department‘s] efforts to avoid public scrutiny of that interference.” Most abused is the “deliberative...
  • Conservatives Approve Interim Report Slamming DOJ On New Black Panther Case

    11/19/2010 10:07:19 AM PST · by jazusamo · 5 replies
    TPM ^ | November 19, 2010 | Ryan J. Reilly
    The conservative majority of the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights today voted to approve what they are now calling an "interim" report on the Justice Department's handling of the voter intimidation case against members of the New Black Panther Party.Commissioners voted 5-2 along ideological lines to approve the report on their investigation, which started back in the summer of 2009. The vote came after talks between DOJ and the Commission to allow officials to testify on the case broke down because, the Justice Department says, of the "unilateral" terms set up by the Commission.Michael Yaki, a Democrat on the...
  • Exclusive Excerpts From New Black Panther Case Investigation Report (USCCR rips DOJ)

    11/18/2010 9:41:46 AM PST · by jazusamo · 15 replies
    Pajamas Media ^ | November 18, 2010 | Hans A. von Spakovsky
    The New Black Panther Party voter-intimidation case, which has rocked the Justice Department, will reach an important endpoint on November 19. At its regular business meeting tomorrow, the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights will consider a draft report on its investigation of the Department’s scandalously politicized handling of the case. This case was unique in one vital aspect almost from its beginning — the existence of a visual recording of the New Black Panthers in their paramilitary, fascist-style uniforms, one holding a night stick, blocking the entrance to a polling place. That kind of direct evidence is very unusual...
  • EDITORIAL: Black Ops on Black Panther case--Justice Department goes rogue on civil rights abuses

    11/17/2010 10:14:36 AM PST · by jazusamo · 10 replies
    The Washington Times ^ | November 16, 2010 | Editorial
    The Justice Department still hasn't explained its decision to drop most of its voter-intimidation case against violent Black Panthers 18 months ago. If the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights finally adopts its report on the controversy, the great lengths Justice officials have taken to avoid scrutiny will be exposed.As the draft comes up for a vote on Friday, new findings from a Judicial Watch lawsuit will further eviscerate the lame excuses Justice has offered. Even in heavily redacted form, department e-mails unearthed last week show top political appointees not just vaguely reviewing and approving the decision to drop most...
  • Explosive New Justice Department Black Panther Emails (also, USCCR reschedules vote)

    11/14/2010 11:57:05 AM PST · by jazusamo · 14 replies
    Right Side News ^ | November 13, 2010 | Tom Fitton
    The Obama Department of Justice (DOJ) cannot shake the New Black Panther Party scandal. Every week new revelations emerge about the racism and political favoritism that are corrupting our nation’s top law enforcement agency.This week, we released to the public brand new documents from the Obama DOJ that provide further evidence that top political appointees at the DOJ were intimately involved in the decision to dismiss the voter intimidation case against the New Black Panther Party. And just like previous documents we’ve uncovered, this new evidence directly contradicts sworn testimony by Thomas Perez, Assistant Attorney General for the Civil...
  • Group Tables $173K Black Panther Report (US Commission on Civil Rights)

    11/05/2010 2:44:39 PM PDT · by jazusamo · 13 replies
    myfoxphilly.com ^ | November 5, 2010
    The U.S. Commission on Civil Rights has delayed approving a $173,000 report that will slam the Obama administration's handling the 2008 Philadelphia Black Panther case.Slideshow: Man With Panther Badge At The PollsA commission spokeswoman told the Web site Main Justice, which monitors the Justice Department, that a vote to approve the report was canceled for Friday.The move comes a week after Michael Yaki, a commissioner who is a Democrat, stormed out of a Commission hearing, leaving the group without enough members to approve the draft report.Yaki told reporters last week the report was "cooked" by the panel's majority to...
  • Justice, Denied (Holder/Obama Justice Dept.)

    11/02/2010 10:29:32 AM PDT · by jazusamo · 12 replies
    The American Spectator ^ | November 2, 2010 | Quin Hillyer
    Under attorney general Eric Holder, the Obama Department of Justice (DOJ) is dangerously politicized, radically leftist, racialist, lawless, and at times corrupt. The good news is that it's also often incompetent. This means the Holderites can bungle their leftist lawlessness so badly that even the most reticent of judges are obliged to smack them down. The abuses by the Holderites are legion. They range from DOJ's infamous abandonment of the already-won voter-intimidation case against several New Black Panthers to multi-faceted assaults on traditional standards of voting rights and obligations; from a growing list of lawsuits deliberately destructive of border security...
  • Michael Yaki is wrong (again)

    10/30/2010 4:40:37 PM PDT · by jazusamo · 3 replies
    Election Law Center ^ | October 30, 2010 | Christian Adams
     Michael Yaki is wrong about this statement to CNN: Yaki said those staffers, Christopher Coates and J. Christian Adams, failed to speak up during earlier allegations of bias during the Bush administration.  "Neither one of them saw fit to come forward to this commission or to Congress over even more egregious acts of voter intimidation" against Latinos and African-Americans, he said.  "I think the hypocrisy is quite evident to the American people and we're going to make that evident in our remarks," Yaki said. His statement is false.  He doesn't know what he is talking about.  Christopher Coates very...
  • Civil rights panel postpones vote on New Black Panthers report after member walks out (Yaki)

    10/29/2010 11:42:26 AM PDT · by jazusamo · 101 replies
    WaPo ^ | October 29, 2010 | Jerry Markon
    A federal commission had to postpone a vote on a report that criticizes the Justice Department's handling of a voter-intimidation lawsuit Friday after a Democratic panelist walked out of the meeting in protest. The draft of the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights report says that Justice tried to hide the extensive involvement of high-level political officials in the dismissal of the suit against members of the New Black Panther Party. The move, the report says, indicates that Justice's Civil Rights Division is failing to protect white voters and is "at war with its core mission of guaranteeing equal protection (under)...
  • DOJ Voting Section Deputy Chief Misled Civil Rights Commission on Black Panthers Case

    10/28/2010 5:49:56 PM PDT · by jazusamo · 17 replies
    Pajamas Media ^ | October 28, 2010 | Hans von Spakovsky
    With the vote on the Civil Rights Commission New Black Panther report set for Friday, former DOJ attorney Hans von Spakovsky submits this affidavit rebutting former Deputy Chief of the Voting Section Robert Kengle. Kengle had contested portions of Christopher Coates’ testimony before the Commission, testimony which described Kengle’s hostility toward race-neutral enforcement of civil rights laws. The Coates testimony was deeply embarassing to Kengle, and von Spakovsky’s corroboration of Coates’ testimony is even more so.Click here  pdf to download von Spakovsky’s affidavit.
  • Rights panel seeks testimony from Justice--New Black Panther intimidation probe at issue

    10/11/2010 6:52:26 PM PDT · by jazusamo · 12 replies
    The Washington Times ^ | October 11, 2010 | Jerry Seper
    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 request is outlined in a letter to be delivered Tuesday to Mr. Holder, following a 5-1 vote Friday by the commission, seeking additional testimony and documents in its investigation of the department's handling of the New Black Panther Party case."Since June 2009, the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights has sought information from the Department of Justice, much of which...
  • EDITORIAL: Black Panther case: Red hot--Witness cites Obama team's 'hostility' to the law

    09/24/2010 5:24:51 PM PDT · by jazusamo · 45 replies
    The Washington Times ^ | September 24, 2010 | Editorial
    Assistant Attorney General Thomas E. Perez has an obligation to clean house at the Justice Department's Civil Rights Division. That's clear after explosive new whistle-blower testimony under oath Friday in the New Black Panther Party voter-intimidation case, which triggers a pledge Mr. Perez made under oath on May 14. Failure to fire some officials and to radically revamp practices in the Civil Rights Division would represent clear dereliction of duty by Mr. Perez.Friday's testimony to the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights came from much-decorated Justice Department veteran Christopher Coates, a hero of the civil rights legal community when he...
  • Full Text of Christopher Coates’ Testimony to U.S. Commission on Civil Rights (PJM Exclusive)

    09/24/2010 10:33:19 AM PDT · by jazusamo · 43 replies · 2+ views
    Pajamas Media ^ | September 24, 2010 | Christopher Coates
    Click here or on the image below to read Mr. Coates’ testimony:
  • EXCLUSIVE: Congressman Warns AG Holder not to Block Coates’ Testimony

    09/23/2010 4:07:37 PM PDT · by jazusamo · 42 replies · 1+ views
    Pajamas Media ^ | September 23, 2010
    In an exclusive obtained by Pajamas Media.com, Rep.  Frank Wolf (R-VA) has warned Attorney General Eric Holder not to interfere with the decision of Christopher Coates to testify before the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights tomorrow, citing the federal “1912 Anti-Gag Legislation and Whistleblower Protection Laws for Federal Employees.” Click here, or on image below, to read the PDF file of Rep. Wolf’s letter to the attorney general: And for background on Coates’ appearance tomorrow before the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights, read Hans A. von Spakovsky’s article at PJM, “Coates’ Direct Eyewitness Testimony to Shine Light on DOJ.”