A former Justice Department attorney who quit his job to protest the Obama administration's handling of the New Black Panther Party voter intimidation case is accusing Attorney General Eric Holder of dropping the charges for racially motivated reasons.
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.
Asked about the Justice Department's claim that they are career attorneys, not political appointees, Adams said "obviously, that's false."
"Under the vacancy reform act, they were serving in a political capacity," he said. "This is one of the examples of Congress not being told the truth, the American people not being told the truth about this case. It's one of the other examples in this case where the truth simply is becoming another victim of the process."
Adams claimed an unnamed political appointee said if somebody wants to bring these kinds of cases, "that' not going to de done out of the civil rights division."
Adams also accused Assistant Attorney General Thomas Perez of lying under oath to Congress about the circumstances surrounding the decision to drop the probe.
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.
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Looks like Eric Holder is too much of a coward to confront racism. Resign you coward.
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You're wrong Ed.
He'll go after them like a rabid dog.
As long as the victim is non-white.
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He'll go after them like a rabid dog. As long as the victim is non-white.
No kidding. ADAMS: Inside the Black Panther case Most disturbing, the dismissal is part of a creeping lawlessness infusing our government institutions. Citizens would be shocked to learn about the open and pervasive hostility within the Justice Department to bringing civil rights cases against nonwhite defendants on behalf of white victims. Equal enforcement of justice is not a priority of this administration. Open contempt is voiced for these types of cases.
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I'd love to see what they'd do if a couple of Skinheads or Yakuza showed up there brandishing weapons alongside the Black Panthers.
Elizabeth Edwards says she and estranged husband John Edwards won't be divorcing unless one of them decides to marry someone else. They're separated.
In a wide-ranging interview in the upcoming issue of People magazine, she also reveals her cancer is spreading. Elizabeth tells People tumors are popping up elsewhere in her body, including a particularly painful one in a hip.
She also says, "John's conduct through this whole thing was terrible and it makes people want him to pay for it. On a personal level, he's paid a lot."
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OOOOOOOOOO, you just know there are ANNA CHAPMAN(S) = SEXY RUSSIAN SPY-BABES are out there just waiting to discovered [by Liz andor Rielle].
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Sadly, she really is that STUPID!
I have a friend whose office was in the same federal building as Pelosi's a few years ago, and rode up from the garage with Pelosi upon numerous occasions. He said on one ride he listened to her explain that there really was no need for the CIA, since the State Department could get all the same information.
She really is that STUPID!
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I'm shocked Missus Pelosi didn't say it was to institute slavery on her wine plantation and restaurant sweat shops. Then I remembered she hires illegal aliens, which is almost as good.
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Actually, Pelosi is right (using their definition of job creation). Welfare payments are the form of government expenditures that are most likely to be spent soonest.
Of course the these jobs are mostly McJobs, and are merely shifted from other areas of the economy as taxes are raised to pay for the welfare or shifted from the future if borrowed money is used to pay.
Government expenditure never results in net job creation.
The National Rifle Association is opposing Elena Kagan's nomination to the Supreme Court and warning senators that it will take their votes into account when considering endorsing their re-election.
In a letter sent to leading senators Thursday, top NRA officials say Kagan has "repeatedly demonstrated a clear hostility" to gun rights in her career in government and academia. The NRA also opposed Justice Sonia Sotomayor's confirmation last year. Sotomayor was among the four dissenters in the high court's decision last week that limits state and local gun restrictions.
Kagan emerged from three days of vetting by the Senate Judiciary Committee much as she had begun, declaring she'd be an independent and impartial judge and denying Republican suggestions that she would be unable to separate her political leanings from her job as a justice.
Democrats said President Barack Obama's nominee to succeed retiring Justice John Paul Stevens was on track to become the fourth woman in Supreme Court history. "Solicitor General Kagan will be confirmed," declared Sen. Patrick Leahy, D-Vt., the panel chairman.
Seedy Politicians because it seems to me they're shilling for O.
With home sales sliding, employers reluctant to hire due to zeronomics and world stock markets gyrating wildly, the U.S. economy is in danger of stalling. Now one of its only reliable sources of fuel is running out: federal stimulus spending. I swore some of it was going to take years to spend. It's all gone? Sucked up?
Funds flowing from the $787-billion legislation passed last year have helped create hundreds of thousands of jobs and propped up social programs such as unemployment benefits. But with much of that money spent and lawmakers reluctant to approve another big round of spending, concerns are rising about what will replace it in the short term to keep the economy moving.
Sometimes I think we need to [figurativly] beat it in these idiots....
Government does not create wealth. Government can't create wealth. Goverment consumes wealth. Sometimes it may facilitate Private Industry in creating wealth. But Government, in itself, cannot create wealth.
Never has, never will. It's the nature of the beast.
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More stimulus? No thanks, I'm holding out for cowbell.
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LOL Rex - My current bridge job goes over train/trolley tracks, so we see BN&SF trains every day (many of which have been tagged when sitting idle - elsewhere?) . Yesterday I saw a BN&SF engine with "Needs More Cowbell" painted prominently on the side. I immediately got a Christopher Walken/SNL flashback
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Bet he doesn't call for first closing the border and sending the illegals home to wait their turn like everyone else...
Wonder what happened to the focus on the oil spill. And on Afghanistan ...
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Seems to me that words like "overhaul" and "reform" might have different meanings to different people. It's almost like a 1984 type of thing. A lot of people a few years ago had great difficulty agreeing on the meaning of "amnesty". Let's hear your definitions, Zero, before you try to cram another 1300-page bill down our throats.
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Stop the free entitlements for illegals and require proof of citizenship for housing and jobs for starters, then see what happens.
Any chance Obama will go down to the southern border in Arizona?
I'm still trying to grasp the comparison of the likes of Tesla to illegals that was mentioned in his speech. To those immigrants that WANT to become Americans and asimilate compared to those coming illegally for free services I see no comparison.
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My Immigration Plan:
Enforce existing laws.
If that doesn't work after five years then try something else.
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"Wait your turn like everyone else"
I agree with this statement in principle, TW. Bear in mind, however, that Immigration is run by the worst collection of doofuses outside of Chicago City Hall.
One immigrant from Austria I met said that they bounced her application four times because they objected to her picture. The first time, they said the picture was too dark. The second time, they said a wisp of hair was in the way. There were two equally asinine reasons for bouncing her next two photos. At least she got her visa in about two years.
Meanwhile, Second Daughter filed a visa for her fiance in March 09. She filed her paperwork according to the rules in effect at the time. Somewhere between the date she filed and Jan 2010, when they got around to reviewing her application, they changed the rules, and bounced her application and ate her $600 fee.
A fiance visa from Mexico has been known to take four years.
My Argentine friend, married to an American for 20 years, has filed and refiled at the immigration office in a major city an hour away from here. She will make her regular visits and they will tell her that her paperwork has expired. "But you had that paperwork in your office the whole time."
"Too bad. It's expired. You have to fill it out again."
So in addition to closing the border, the best thing we could do for immigration reform is to reform the Immigration services. The immigration service staff are a blot on the national escutcheon (which statement is more polite than the string of obscenities which they truly deserve).
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Obama is a politician...politicians like the sound of their own voices...ergo, Obama keeps flapping his jaws.
In order to give himself something to flap his jaws about, he must first consider any anti-Obama blowback, ergo, he speaks little about private sector jobs, the private sector economy, foreign "policy,", etc, as there is nothing here for him to take any real credit.
That leaves the "Immigration" issue.
If Obama can make conservatives and Conservatives look like nutburgers by getting them all twitterpated about the rumor of amnesty, Obama and the gang looks, well, almost Presidential and measured.
The use of the Immigration straw man at this point is, well.......IT'S A TRAP!
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I hear you about the Immigration office Mom. Brought my wife (then fiancee) over on a Fiance visa from the Philippines about 8 years ago. And that was just before they really starting putting in all the crap they have now. We didn't face anything like what what your daughter and friends are facing.
Note that the embassy / consulate in a foreign country however is not under immigration, but the state department (which probably explains a lot). They held up my wife's visa for no apparent reason for weeks (trying times for us...).
The only reason Obama wants Amnasty (it has nothing to do with immigration!) is to produce 11 million democratic voters.
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The principle seems to be, that since someone snuck in the downstairs bedroom windo years ago, and has been living there and raiding the icebox ever since, and because we don't wnt them to think we don't like them, we should adopt them?
I call Bulls*it! If you ever argue for principles, this cannot stand. It is just plain theft on their part and cowardice on ours to let this stand. Get out, and ring the front GD doorbell like decent folks! how we ever got suckered into letting this be about the color of their skin instead of their immoral and illegal act is beyond me. I don't give a crap if it's profiling, this has got to stop!
Spoken at best by a transnational progressive, at worst by an international collective. However, it clearly says he has no loyalty to those who believes it is a matter of blood or birth.
Ohio, with its 20 electoral votes, has always been in the top tier of bellwether-states-to-watch in presidential elections given that you have to go back to 1960 -- when Richard Nixon carried it in his losing race against John F. Kennedy -- for the last time it failed to support the winner.
And most of those races have been close if you subtract the blow-out elections when Lyndon Johnson defeated Barry Goldwater, Richard Nixon swamped George McGovern, Ronald Reagan trumped Jimmy Carter and then Walter Mondale, and George H.W. Bush dispatched Michael Dukakis.
So, although 2012 is still a ways off, it is for good reason that the latest Quinnipiac University survey of the state contains this admonition from pollster Peter Brown: "Given Ohio's key position in the Electoral College, the White House needs to keep a sharp eye on the president's numbers in the Buckeye State. They aren't awful, but they aren't good either."
Obama won the state in 2008 with 51.4 percent of the vote to John McCain's 46.8 percent, but right now, 49 percent of Ohio voters disapprove of the job Obama is doing while 45 percent approve, with 6 percent undecided. Obama was also in negative territory in Quinnipiac's three previous polls this year. Independents currently disapprove by 53 percent to 40 percent, with 7 percent undecided. In 2008, independents supported Obama by 52 percent to 44 percent with 4 percent not revealing for whom they voted, according to exit polls.
Ohioans are split on whether they want their next senator -- the person elected to fill the seat of the GOP's George Voinovich -- to support or oppose Obama's policies. Forty-eight percent want the next Senator to oppose Obama's agenda, 46 percent want him to support Obama, with 6 percent undecided. (That same divide is reflected in the current race where Democratic Lt. Gov. Lee Fisher leads former Republican Rep. Rob Portman by 42 percent to 40 percent, with 17 percent undecided). The poll's margin of error is 3 points.
Fifty-four percent disapprove of the way Obama is handling the economy while 41 percent approve, with 5 percent undecided.
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All this despite the huge numbers who don't pay taxes or expect to benefit from this in the future.
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Ohio, with its 20 electoral votes, has always been in the top tier of bellwether-states-to-watch in presidential elections given that you have to go back to 1960 -- when Richard Nixon carried it in his losing race against John F. Kennedy -- for the last time it failed to support the winner.
A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
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Chris gives us Mexican press dispatches of drug and gang war violence
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A former Justice Department attorney who quit his job to protest the Obama administration's handling of the New Black Panther Party voter intimidation case is accusing Attorney General Eric Holder of dropping the charges for racially motivated reasons.
Elizabeth Edwards says she and estranged husband John Edwards won't be divorcing unless one of them decides to marry someone else. They're separated. 
Ohio, with its 20 electoral votes, has always been in the top tier of bellwether-states-to-watch in presidential elections given that you have to go back to 1960 -- when Richard Nixon carried it in his losing race against John F. Kennedy -- for the last time it failed to support the winner.
