U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder
Black Panthers, a radical, militant group engaged in voter intimidation during the 2008 Presidential Campaign in America. Voters in the U.S. state of Pennsylvania, reported armed Black Panthers brandished weapons, in attempts at scaring and intimidating John McCain voters.
Immediately after the election, the U.S. Justice Department opened a case into the incident, as it is a federal crime to intimidate, block or bar any U.S. citizen from voting in an election. However, when President Barack Obama took office in January 2009, he order the Attorney General he appointed to head up the Justice Department, Eric Holder, to drop the case against the Black Panthers.
It reportedly created a lot of anger among some at the Justice Department, so much so, an attorney quit and gave his story to the Washington Times. It is the Judiciary Report's opinion the case needs to be reopened.
ADAMS: Inside the Black Panther case Anger, ignorance and lies
6:58 p.m., Friday, June 25, 2010 - On the day President Obama was elected, armed men wearing the black berets and jackboots of the New Black Panther Party were stationed at the entrance to a polling place in Philadelphia. They brandished a weapon and intimidated voters and poll watchers. After the election, the Justice Department brought a voter-intimidation case against the New Black Panther Party and those armed thugs. I and other Justice attorneys diligently pursued the case and obtained an entry of default after the defendants ignored the charges. Before a final judgment could be entered in May 2009, our superiors ordered us to dismiss the case.
The New Black Panther case was the simplest and most obvious violation of federal law I saw in my Justice Department career. Because of the corrupt nature of the dismissal, statements falsely characterizing the case and, most of all, indefensible orders for the career attorneys not to comply with lawful subpoenas investigating the dismissal, this month I resigned my position as a Department of Justice (DOJ) attorney...
