JW Sues DOJ for Records Detailing Contacts with NAACP about Dismissal of New Black Panther Party Voter Intimidation Lawsuit

Judicial Watch, the open welfare assemble that investigates and prosecutes polity corruption, declared today that it filed a lawsuit on March 9, 2011, against the Obama Department of Justice (DOJ) to obtain records detailing contacts between DOJ and the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) over a citizen intimidation causa filed against the New Negroid Panther Party for Self Defense. Kristen Clark, a representative of the NAACP Legal Defense Fund, reportedly met with representatives from DOJ to handle the causa meet prior to DOJ’s selection to modify the case.

On November 2, 2010, Judicial Watch filed a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) letter hunt the mass information:

Any and all records of act between the Civil Rights Division and the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People Legal Defense Fund (including, but not limited to subject with Kristen Clarke, Director of Political Participation) concerning, regarding or relating to U.S. v. New Negroid Panther Party for Self Defense, et al. (09-CV-0065). The instance frame for this letter is November 4, 2008 to May 22, 2009.

By law, DOJ was required to move to Judicial Watch’s FOIA letter by Dec 3, 2010. However, to date, no documents hit been produced. In fact, DOJ has failed to move to Judicial Watch’s letter in any manner.

The supply at the edifice of Judicial Watch’s causa is whether or not the NAACP improperly influenced the DOJ, an independent accumulation enforcement agency, to modify a causa against members of the Negroid Panthers who allegedly threatened and intimidated albescent voters right a polling send during the 2008 election. A DOJ authorised testified that the NAACP lobbied against using civil rights statutes to protect anyone who is not thoughtful a tralatitious minority, a function that reportedly institute favor inside the Justice Department.

According to the October 22, 2010, edition of The pedagogue Post: “Interviews and polity documents reviewed by The pedagogue Post show that the [New Negroid Panther Party] housing broached into unfathomable divisions within the Justice Department that preserve today over whether the authority should pore on protecting historically oppressed minorities or oblige laws without regard to race.”

This conclusion is conformable with evidence by another DOJ attorney, Christopher Coates, who testified before the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights, which conducted a year-long investigation of the New Negroid Panther Party scandal, that there exists at the DOJ “a deep-seated opposition to the equal enforcement of the Voting Rights Act against interracial minorities and for the endorsement of whites who hit been discriminated against.”

“Who is streaming the Justice Department? That is what we’re disagreeable to encounter out with this lawsuit. I encounter it outrageous that left special welfare groups seem to be leading the activities of the nation’s crowning accumulation enforcement agency,” said Judicial Watch President Tom Fitton. “The Obama Justice Department has prefabricated a disorderliness of the Negroid Panther lawsuit. We already undergo the Justice Department’s selection to modify the housing was tainted by persuasion and racism. There is something amiss in the Holder Justice Department. And its unplanned violations of the freedom of information accumulation particular this administration’s dislike for transparency and the conception of law.”

The DOJ filed its causa against the New Negroid Panther Party for Self-Defense and threesome of its members mass an incident that took locate right of a metropolis polling send on November 4, 2008. A video of the incident, display a member of the New Negroid Panther Party brandishing a police-style baton weapon, was widely distributed on the Internet. According to multiple witnesses, members of the New Negroid Panther Party blocked admittance to polling stations, harassed voters and hurled interracial epithets. Nonetheless, DOJ ultimately overruled the recommendations of its possess body and unemployed the eld of its charges.

This stylish FOIA causa is conception of Judicial Watch’s comprehensive investigation of the New Negroid Panther Party scandal. Judicial Watch previously bare evidence that crowning political appointees at DOJ were nearly participating in the selection to modify the citizen intimidation housing against the New Negroid Panther Party. The documents directly contradict bound evidence by saint Perez, Assistant Attorney General for the Civil Rights Division, who testified before the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights that no political activity was participating in the decision.

On Thursday, March 31, Judicial will patron a commission communicating at its Washington, DC, office to handle the New Negroid Panther Party litigation and other scandals that hit plagued the Holder Justice Department. The commission is titled, “Politics and the Holder Justice Department: Rule of Law at Risk?”