If you get your "news" from the MSM, you will not know that Christopher Coates testified this morning to the Civil Rights Commission on the perversion of justice committed by the Voting Section of the DoJ devoted to the Voting Rights Act. Ed Morrissey points out one bombshell:
Coates: Obama appointee told me to stop pursuing race-neutral enforcement of Voting Rights Act
PJTVis broadcasting the testimony of Christopher Coates to the Civil Rights Commission live this morning, but they already have his opening statement available in PDF format at Pajamas Media. It contains at least one bombshell, which is that Obama appointee Loretta King ordered Coates to stop asking applicants whether they supported race-neutral enforcement of the Voting Rights Act. The question became necessary because of resistance in the Civil Rights division from career attorneys to enforce the law when it resulted in African-American defendants rather than victims, an attitude that Coates first encountered in the Bush era:
Opposition within the Voting Section was widespread to taking actions under the VRA on behalf of white voters in Noxubee County, MS, the jurisdiction in which Ike Brown was and is the Chairman of the local Democratic Executive Committee. In 2003, white voters and candidates complained to the Voting Section that elections had been administered in a racially discriminatory manner and asked that federal observers be sent to the primary run-off elections. Career attorneys in the Voting Section recommended that we not even go to Noxubee County for the primary run-off to do election coverage, but that opposition to going to Noxubee was overridden by the Bush Administration’s CRD Front Office. I went on the coverage and while traveling to Mississippi, the Deputy Chief who was leading that election coverage asked me, “can you believe that we are going to Mississippi to protect white voters?” What I observed on that election coverage was some of the most outrageous and blatant racially discriminatory behavior at the polls committed by Ike Brown and his allies that I have seen or had reported to me in my thirty-three plus years as a voting rights litigator.
In my perusal of his testimony at the PJM site, I was alarmed (though not surprised) by a second bombshell. I have been unable to cut and paste so will paraphrase. (pps 15-16)
In June 2009, the Election Assistcne Commission issued its bi-annual report concerning which states were not complying with Section 8's list maintenncae provisions. These provisions are in place to insure that voting rolls are periodically updated and ineligible voters removed formt he rolls. Eight states were identified as particularly egregious offenders. These states has reported no voters were removed from the rolls in he previous two years! In some cases there were more voters on the rolls than adults over 18 in the area. (The total number cited in his testimony was 130% of the persons over 18 in Noxubee county.) Not surprisingly these were predominantly Democrat run states. As Chief of the Voting Section, Chirspotpher Coates was in achagre of ensuring compliance. He requested permission to begin an investigation and such permission was never granted.
It is bad enough that the racialists and race hustlers in our community insist there is no such thing as minority racism but for the government to explicitly refuse to grant equal protection to a group of people based on their color is anathema to American values. This is far more than a peculiar decision by the Obama DoJ not to pursue a case against the New Black Panther Party for voter intimidation, this is an effort to facilitate the subversion of our electoral system and undermine faith in the integrity of our elections. This is beyond corruption.
[Update] There is much more here:
American Hero: Coates Negates a Year of Justice Department Spin on New Black Panther Case
It has been a very bad week for the dwindling number of people defending the dismissal of the voter intimidation case against the New Black Panther Party by Eric Holder’s Justice Department. Today might have been the worst day of all. Former Voting Section Chief Christopher Coates testified to the United States Civil Rights Commission that Obama political appointees dismissed the case because they are opposed to enforcing civil rights laws in a racially neutral fashion.
And that was just the beginning.
In a dramatic hearing in Washington, D.C., Coates simply destroyed the year-long spin from the Justice Department regarding the dismissal. Coates is the former Voting Section chief, and served as lead attorney on the Black Panther case. He has practiced voting rights law longer than any other lawyer at the Justice Department. His testimony today was the worst possible nightmare for the Obama political officials responsible for the dismissal.
I testified before the Commission in July that Obama political appointee Julie Fernandes made it clear that the Voting Section at the Justice Department would not be bringing any more cases against traditional national racial minorities, like the members of the New Black Panthers. Under oath, Coates corroborated my testimony.
Read the whole thing and here's a prediction: if the Republicans take either House of Congress in November, Eric Holder will shortly thereafter find a need to spend more time with his family. As the Chinese saying has it: The fish rots from the head.
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