Maybe Now We'll Get The Facts

I've discussed the Holder Justice Department's reprehensible dismissal of the voter intimidation cases against the New Black Panthers previously: Meet Your Political DOJ Leaders and Hold That Tiger--Er, Panther. DOJ has continued to stonewall the Civil Rights Commission concerning the dismissals, but we may get a break this week. Pictured are some of the Panthers "protecting the polls" in Philadelphia.

In short, the career professional lawyers in the Department of Justice had dead-bang winner cases against the New Black Panthers and their thuggish law-breaking at the polls in Philadelphia in November, 2008. In fact, the Department already had two default judgments firmly in hand. By the time the rest of the cases were ready to come before the courts, a strange thing happened. The cases, under the new leadership of Eric Holder, were suddenly and ignominiously dismissed by the Department, including those it had already won.

I'm not going to pretend for a second that anyone with an IQ above room temperature doesn't know the reasons behind that decision. But as all lawyers and most fans of TV lawyer shows understand, knowing something is not the same as proving it. When queried on the reasons by the U. S. Commission on Civil Rights, the Obama-Holder Justice Department went into full defensive mode. Dissent was immediately silenced. Demands from the Commission were ignored. Those few responses to the Commission which were issued by Holder were both patronizing and unethical. Those career lawyers in the Department who had put the legal complaints together were threatened with banishment to the professional equivalent of Siberia if they attempted to justify their successful litigation against the Panthers.

Several of the threatened attorneys caved in, while other continued to speak up privately and were rewarded with their new positions at the DOJ gulags. Much of this, though not particularly noble, is understandable. These were career lawyers who had devoted their professional lives to the Department and didn't wish to see their life's work end so suddenly. But a few refused to follow Holder's orders to remain silent on the issue, and have left the Department.

One of those brave souls, J. Christian Adams, resigned when the DOJ political lawyers, likely under the direct orders of Attorney General Eric Holder, forbade him to testify truthfully before the Civil Rights Commission. Adams, a careerist lawyer in the Voting Rights Division of the DOJ, was one of the attorneys directly involved in the successful litigation against the Panthers. Adams has said recently, among other condemnations of Holder's department, that he could simply no longer tolerate the DOJ's horrendously skewed record of failure to pursue black-on-white crimes and civil rights violations.

Like Obama, Holder loves to speak in grandiose terms about racial relations, but also like Obama, he is entirely lacking in the Founders' concept of equal justice under law or Martin Luther King's belief in character rather than color. Holder seems determined to right wrongs committed more than forty years ago by punishing people who had nothing to do with suppression of the black vote in the South. On the other hand, he seems equally determined to ignore current violations of both Civil Rights and Voting Rights legislation so long as the perpetrators are the alleged descendants of those who actually were victims of discrimination.

So far, Adams has already specifically named two of the leftist political functionaries in DOJ whom I mentioned in my earlier articles. Loretta King and Steve Rosenbaum, says Adams, were instrumental in the suppression of further prosecution and dismissal of the cases already won. We will have to wait for the hearings to find out if he will specifically name Holder himself. I find it almost impossible to believe that they could have done their dirty deeds without the approval of Holder, but Adams is a professional, and he won't accuse Holder himself unless he has evidence. Let's hope he does.

I'm bringing this information to you for three reasons. The first is that the whole rotten mess offends my civil rights activist soul. Is this why we took on redneck Southern sheriffs, high-pressure firehoses and vicious police dogs in the 60s? The second is that after a personal career in law for many years, seeing selective prosecution reappear in a new form offends my entire love of the Constitution and the rule of law.

The third reason is far more mundane. I bring this to you because the MSM won't. They succeeded in ignoring or burying the first round of contention when the legal cases were dismissed. Then they totally ignored the series of major confrontations between Holder's department and the Civil Rights Commission. And as of this writing, I have not seen a single report in the liberal press or on the liberal "news" stations that what could be extremely damaging testimony by a knowledgeable insider is about to take place.

Adams is scheduled to testify tomorrow (Tuesday) before the Commission. He's a quiet, apolitical and thoughtful lawyer who has not sought the glare of public fame. Perhaps he should have. If his testimony comes even close to the blockbuster whistle-blowing expose that I expect it will, the complete lack of public knowledge of the event would mean another victory for the left's race-baiting extra-legal unconstitutional racial discrimination. And even if it doesn't rise to that level, I salute a man who was brave enough to stand up to the high-volume intimidation thrown at him by Holder and his crowd of unprofessional leftist pseudo-lawyers at the department charged with protecting us from lawlessness. Well done, thou good and faithful servant.