{"id":571337,"date":"2010-05-19T23:01:41","date_gmt":"2010-05-20T03:01:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.personalliberty.com\/liberty\/attorney-general-eric-holders-deputy-testifies-in-voter-intimidation-inquiry\/"},"modified":"2010-05-19T23:01:41","modified_gmt":"2010-05-20T03:01:41","slug":"attorney-general-eric-holder%e2%80%99s-deputy-testifies-in-voter-intimidation%c2%a0inquiry","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/571337","title":{"rendered":"Attorney General Eric Holder\u2019s Deputy Testifies In Voter Intimidation\u00a0Inquiry"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/pictures.directnews.co.uk\/liveimages\/_NewPhoto_1961_19782359_0_0_7057256_300.jpg\" alt=\"Attorney General Eric Holder's deputy testifies in voter intimidation inquiry \" align=\"right\" class=\"post_image\">As the Obama administration tries to stave off criticism over its dismissal of the investigation into the alleged New Black Panther Party voter intimidation case last year, a top Justice Department official testified on May 14 in front of the United States Civil Rights Commission. <\/p>\n<p>Assistant Attorney General for Civil Rights Thomas Perez spent 90 minutes defending the department&#8217;s actions, saying there were no alternative motivations behind the decision to drop the case by then-Acting Assistant Attorney General for Civil Rights Loretta King, according to <i>Main Justice<\/i>. <\/p>\n<p>&quot;This is a case about career people disagreeing with career people,&quot; he was quoted as saying by the news provider, seemingly implying that the dispute was primarily between lawyers. <\/p>\n<p>However, Perez entered into a heated exchange with Commissioner Gail Heriot who pressed him to answer why a more expansive injunction was not sought against a member of the Black Panther party who had carried a nightstick, the news source further reported. <\/p>\n<p>The ongoing inquiry stems from an incident on Election Day 2008 at a Philadelphia polling station where members of the New Black Panther Party allegedly tried to intimidate voters by standing in military-style garb outside. <\/p>\n<p>Late last year, the Department of Justice (DOJ) dismissed most of the case, causing anger among many conservatives. <\/p>\n<p><i>Main Justice<\/i> reports that the commission&#8217;s report is scheduled to be released before the mid-term elections. <img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"ADNFCR-1961-ID-19782359-ADNFCR\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.directnews.co.uk\/feedtrack\/justcopyright.gif?feedid=1961&amp;itemid=19782359\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As the Obama administration tries to stave off criticism over its dismissal of the investigation into the alleged New Black Panther Party voter intimidation case last year, a top Justice Department official testified on May 14 in front of the United States Civil Rights Commission. Assistant Attorney General for Civil Rights Thomas Perez spent 90 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4205,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-571337","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/571337","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4205"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=571337"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/571337\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=571337"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=571337"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=571337"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}