Attorney J. Christian Adams' five years in the U.S. Justice Department's Voting Rights Section ended with his 2010 resignation over Justice's dismissal of a Philadelphia voter-intimidation case despite video showing a New Black Panther Party member brandishing a nightstick at a polling place. Now, he lays out a broader indictment in his new book "Injustice: Exposing the Racial Agenda of the Obama Justice Department" (Regnery). Discussing that Philadelphia case and others, Adams writes that Justice is now dominated by left-wing "racialists" drawn from the "civil rights industry" who believe in enforcing laws only to benefit traditional minorities -- even laws intended to be race- neutral, even when it's whites whose rights are at stake. Following are excerpts from the Trib's phone conver...
Minister King Samir Shabazz, head of the New Black Panther Party in Philadelphia, yelled at onlookers: "You are about to be ruled by the black man, cracker!" In March, Bull got a call from Christian Adams, an attorney with the Justice Department's Civil Rights Division, who asked him to provide an affidavit about the incident to support a Justice civil rights lawsuit against the New Black Panther Party and three of its supporters. Hans von Spakovsky, a former official in Justice's Civil Rights Division under President Bush, told me he was shocked by Justice's turnaround in the Philadelphia case: Imagine if the defendants had been white and been intimidating voters and Justice had dropped the case.
The U.S. Commission on Civil Rights on Friday demanded for the second time that the Justice Department explain its dismissal of charges against members of the New Black Panther Party who disrupted a Philadelphia polling place during the November elections, saying a previous response was "largely non-responsive" and "paints the department in a poor light. In a letter to Attorney General Eric H. Holder Jr., the commission said it is "answerable" to the president, Congress and the public to ensure that civil rights laws are enforced and that it had the authority to subpoena witnesses and documents to guarantee laws are being followed by federal agencies, including the Justice Department.
Associate Attorney General Thomas J. Perrelli, the No. 3 official in the Obama Justice Department, was consulted and ultimately approved a decision in May to reverse course and drop a civil complaint accusing three members of the New Black Panther Party of intimidating voters in Philadelphia during November's election, according to interviews. The department's career lawyers in the Voting Section of the Civil Rights Division who pursued the complaint for five months had recommended that Justice seek sanctions against the party and three of its members after the government had already won a default judgment in federal court against the men.
Investigation needed of voter intimidation case By now many have seen the YouTube video taken Nov. 4, 2008, depicting alleged voter intimidation at a Philadelphia polling place - showing two New Black Panther Party members in paramilitary uniforms, one with a night stick.
The Justice Department refused Tuesday to turn over most of the information and documents sought by the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights explaining why a civil complaint was dismissed against members of the New Black Panther Party who disrupted a Philadelphia polling place in the November 2008 elections. In a 38-page response, the department objected - except for a few court records, letters and procedural documents - to "each and every" question and document request submitted by the commission, saying the subpoenas violated existing executive orders, privacy and privilege concerns, and were burdensome, vague and ambiguous.
Former Democratic presidential candidate Howard Dean on Sunday accused Fox News of racism for airing without verification a videotape of Agriculture Department official Shirley Sherrod apparently making racist remarks, which led to her dismissal. I think Fox News did something that was absolutely racist," Mr. Dean on "Fox News Sunday." He said the reporting by the conservative- leaning cable network on the Justice Department investigation of New Black Panther Party members outside a Philadelphia voting station during the 2008 elections also had racist undertones.
The Justice Department has told the federal attorneys who filed a civil complaint against the New Black Panther Party for disrupting a Philadelphia polling place last year not to cooperate with an investigation of the incident by the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights. The commission last week subpoenaed at least two Justice Department lawyers and sought documents from the department to explain why the complaint was dismissed just as a federal judge was about to punish the New Black Panther Party and three of its members for intimidating voters.
A senior Republican on the House Appropriations Committee asked the Justice Department's Office of Inspector General on Tuesday to investigate "potential improprieties" in the department's dismissal of a civil complaint brought against the New Black Panther Party after its members disrupted a Philadelphia polling place in the November 2008 elections. Rep. Frank R. Wolf of Virginia told Inspector General Glenn A. Fine in a letter he was "disappointed" in Mr. Fine's "reluctance to investigate the unfounded dismissal of an important voter intimidation case," adding that despite repeated requests for information by members of Congress, the press and the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights, the Justice Department "continues to stonewall all efforts to obtain information regarding the case's abru...
The New Black Panther Party catapulted itself to national attention during the November 2008 presidential election when two of its members, one brandishing a nightstick, were captured on videotape intimidating voters at a Philadelphia polling place. But the original Black Panther Party, which famously advocated black power and preached self-defense through confrontation in the 1960s and 1970s, is not happy with the new upstart. It has condemned the New Black Panther Party and its tactics, saying the NBPP "stole" the party's name for its "own misguided purposes.
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