Why did the Obama DOJ drop the New Black Panther Party voter intimidation case?
Megyn Kelly interviews former DOJ attorney J. Christian Adams, who quit his job to protest the Obama Justice Department’s dismissal of the case. Adams believes that politics and race played a role in the Obama Administration’s decision to dismiss the case. Fox News reported: J. Christian Adams, now an attorney in Virginia and a conservative blogger, says he and the other Justice Department lawyers working on the case were ordered to dismiss it. “I mean we were told, ‘Drop the charges against the New Black Panther Party,’” Adams told Fox News, adding that political appointees Loretta King, acting head of the civil rights division, and Steve Rosenbaum, an attorney with the division since 2003, ordered the dismissal. Asked about the Justice Department’s claim that they are career attorneys, not political appointees, Adams said “obviously, that’s false.” “Under the vacancy reform act, they were serving in a political capacity,” he said. “This is one of the examples of Congress not being to
