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Reading from a prepared statement, Coates – a 13-year civil rights prosecutor appointed by President Bill Clinton who also served under President George W. Bush – said he resisted department pressure to focus solely on prosecuting whites rather than blacks or other minorities accused of race-based voting violations. The atmosphere worsened after Obama took office, he said, reaching a turning point with the case against the New Black Panthers.
Though video showed two members in paramilitary gear harassing whites outside a polling place in Philadelphia, Coates said, his supervisors downplayed the case because the alleged perpetrators were black. Yet if the two suspects were white-robed Ku Klux Klansmen menacing black voters, Coates told the panel, there would have been widespread uproar and demands for justice.
Coates accused the Justice Department of caving in to outside influence groups, including the NAACP Legal Defense Fund, which he said demanded that prosecutors drop the case. “Many of these groups act…as special interest lobbies for racial and ethnic minorities and demand not equal treatment but enforcement of the Voting Rights Act only for racial and language minorities,” Coates said.
The outcome of the New Black Panthers Party case, he said, confirmed his concerns that the top ranks at Justice are interested only in protecting minorities.
Coates said the Justice Department’s efforts to silence him threatened to obscure what he called “the hostile atmosphere that has existed within [Justice’s Civil Rights] Division for a long time against race-neutral enforcement of the Voting Rights Act.”
“I did not lightly decide to comply with your subpoena in contradiction to the DOJ’s directives not to testify,” Coates said. “If incorrect representations are going to successfully thwart inquiry into the systemic problems regarding race-neutral enforcement of the Voting Rights Act by the Civil Rights Division, problems that were manifested….in the New Black Panther Party case that end is not going to be furthered or accomplished by my sitting idly or silently by at the direction of my supervisors while incorrect information is provided.
“I do not believe that I am professionally, ethically, legally, or morally bound to allow such a result to occur,” Coates said.
The Justice Department has said it advised Coates not to testify to avoid chilling the free-flowing exchange of information among department attorneys as cases are considered and prosecution decisions are made.
Coates said Assistant Attorney General Tom Perez’s testimony in May, defending the department’s handling of the NBPP case, “did not accurately reflect” what led to the decision to drop much of the case. Coates said Perez may not have been aware of all aspects of the matter, especially since he took over after others at Justice had decided to downgrade the case.
However, Democratic commissioner Michael Yaki suggested that there were weaknesses in the Justice Department’s case against the Panthers, including no white voters complaining they were intimidated. Yaki asked Coates why the initial investigation into the Panthers took about 45 days, rather than more typical months or years other civil rights cases take.
“Was it that easy a case?” Yaki asked.
“It was that simple a case,” Coates answered. “There was a video shot there of the people standing in close proximity to the entrance to the polling place in uniform with—one of them with a weapon in hand.”
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Coates said his view that some in the Civil Rights Division were hostile to enforcing voting rights laws against minorities was reinforced by his experience pursuing a case filed in majority-black Noxubee County, Mississippi, in 2005. “Opposition within the voting section was widespread to taking actions under the Voting Rights Act on behalf of white voters in,” where blacks are in the majority, he said.
“A Voting Section career attorney informed me that he was opposed to bringing voting rights cases against African American defendants…until we reached the day when the socio-economic status of blacks in Mississippi was the same as the socio-economic status of whites living there,” he said. “Of course, there’s nothing in the statutory language of the VRA that indicates DOJ lawyers can decide not to enforce the race-neutral prohibitions in the Act against racial discrimination….until socio-economic parity is achieved between blacks and whites in the jurisdiction in which the cases arise.”
Coates said a senior Civil Rights Division official, Loretta King also ordered him to stop asking job Justice Department job candidates if they would be willing to work on cases against minorities who violated equal-protection laws as well as cases filed against whites.
“She did not ask me. She told me. She said, ‘You will not ask that question again,’” Coates said.
From Nice Deb, New Records Prove High Ranking DOJ Officials Lied About New Black Panther Case:
I never believed that it was merely low level career civil servants who were behind the dismissal of the New Black Panther case. But that was the official DOJ line, and the MSM bought it hook, line, and sinker. There was no way for doubters to establish that they were lying because the public wasn’t privy to DOJ records that could prove it.
But thanks to a Judicial Watch FOIA request, we now know the truth.
Though video showed two members in paramilitary gear harassing whites outside a polling place in Philadelphia, Coates said, his supervisors downplayed the case because the alleged perpetrators were black. Yet if the two suspects were white-robed Ku Klux Klansmen menacing black voters, Coates told the panel, there would have been widespread uproar and demands for justice.
Coates accused the Justice Department of caving in to outside influence groups, including the NAACP Legal Defense Fund, which he said demanded that prosecutors drop the case. “Many of these groups act…as special interest lobbies for racial and ethnic minorities and demand not equal treatment but enforcement of the Voting Rights Act only for racial and language minorities,” Coates said.
The outcome of the New Black Panthers Party case, he said, confirmed his concerns that the top ranks at Justice are interested only in protecting minorities.
Coates said the Justice Department’s efforts to silence him threatened to obscure what he called “the hostile atmosphere that has existed within [Justice’s Civil Rights] Division for a long time against race-neutral enforcement of the Voting Rights Act.”
“I did not lightly decide to comply with your subpoena in contradiction to the DOJ’s directives not to testify,” Coates said. “If incorrect representations are going to successfully thwart inquiry into the systemic problems regarding race-neutral enforcement of the Voting Rights Act by the Civil Rights Division, problems that were manifested….in the New Black Panther Party case that end is not going to be furthered or accomplished by my sitting idly or silently by at the direction of my supervisors while incorrect information is provided.
“I do not believe that I am professionally, ethically, legally, or morally bound to allow such a result to occur,” Coates said.
The Justice Department has said it advised Coates not to testify to avoid chilling the free-flowing exchange of information among department attorneys as cases are considered and prosecution decisions are made.
Coates said Assistant Attorney General Tom Perez’s testimony in May, defending the department’s handling of the NBPP case, “did not accurately reflect” what led to the decision to drop much of the case. Coates said Perez may not have been aware of all aspects of the matter, especially since he took over after others at Justice had decided to downgrade the case.
However, Democratic commissioner Michael Yaki suggested that there were weaknesses in the Justice Department’s case against the Panthers, including no white voters complaining they were intimidated. Yaki asked Coates why the initial investigation into the Panthers took about 45 days, rather than more typical months or years other civil rights cases take.
“Was it that easy a case?” Yaki asked.
“It was that simple a case,” Coates answered. “There was a video shot there of the people standing in close proximity to the entrance to the polling place in uniform with—one of them with a weapon in hand.”
[...]
Coates said his view that some in the Civil Rights Division were hostile to enforcing voting rights laws against minorities was reinforced by his experience pursuing a case filed in majority-black Noxubee County, Mississippi, in 2005. “Opposition within the voting section was widespread to taking actions under the Voting Rights Act on behalf of white voters in,” where blacks are in the majority, he said.
“A Voting Section career attorney informed me that he was opposed to bringing voting rights cases against African American defendants…until we reached the day when the socio-economic status of blacks in Mississippi was the same as the socio-economic status of whites living there,” he said. “Of course, there’s nothing in the statutory language of the VRA that indicates DOJ lawyers can decide not to enforce the race-neutral prohibitions in the Act against racial discrimination….until socio-economic parity is achieved between blacks and whites in the jurisdiction in which the cases arise.”
Coates said a senior Civil Rights Division official, Loretta King also ordered him to stop asking job Justice Department job candidates if they would be willing to work on cases against minorities who violated equal-protection laws as well as cases filed against whites.
“She did not ask me. She told me. She said, ‘You will not ask that question again,’” Coates said.
From Nice Deb, New Records Prove High Ranking DOJ Officials Lied About New Black Panther Case:
I never believed that it was merely low level career civil servants who were behind the dismissal of the New Black Panther case. But that was the official DOJ line, and the MSM bought it hook, line, and sinker. There was no way for doubters to establish that they were lying because the public wasn’t privy to DOJ records that could prove it.
But thanks to a Judicial Watch FOIA request, we now know the truth.
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Under the Obama, we now have enforced racists policies in America.