Unpublicized Hearings

This article is based on two sources, The Hill and Power Line.  Both articles were published yesterday.

Ron Christie from The Hill attended the United States Commission on Civil Rights' hearings yesterday on the U. S. Department of Justice and the New Black Panther Party litigation.  If you have not yet seen the video of the new Black Panthers standing outside one of the polling places in Philadelphia, you can go to YouTube and watch it.  It is stunning.  The video only shows a small part of what was going on--there was serious intimidation of voters in Philadelphia.

According to The Hill:

"Here's where things get interesting. After the government had won its case in the absence of the defense to present itself, the Department of Justice abruptly changed course and sought to voluntarily dismiss the charges against three of the defendants while giving a slap on the hand to another by telling him that he was not able to go to Philadelphia polling stations through the 2012 elections. The big question as to why the Department of Justice would drop the charges on a clear-cut case of voter intimidation startled many; in today's commission hearing, I think we found the answer that had so far been elusive."

J. Christian Adams, testifying before the Commission on Civil Rights stated that senior officials within the Obama Justice Department had told employees that they were not to bring voting-rights cases where the alleged victim in the case was white.

Power Line reports the following via Pajamas Media:

"Several former DOJ employees have been in contact with Pajamas Media, interested in publicly supporting J. Christian Adams as he comes forward about the DOJ's failure to enforce the country's laws from a race-neutral perspective."

It is amazing that the mainstream media has not covered this story.  How this case is eventually handled will determine if America is capable of becoming a 'color blind' society.  It is wrong to intimidate voters whatever color they may be.  The actions of the new Black Panthers were a threat to voting rights--the actions of the Justice Department since the incident are a threat to our democracy.