Two Democrats on the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights say that J. Christian Adams, the former Justice Department lawyer at the heart of the scandal over the New Black Panther Party voter intimidation case, isn’t credible because he contributes to a “race-baiting” website run by conservative pundit Andrew Breitbart.Michael Yaki and Arlan Melendez, the only two Democrats on the Civil Rights Commission at the time, wrote a statement dissenting from the report issued by the conservative majority, calling the Republican-pushed New Black Panther Party investigation a “tremendous waste of scarce government resources.”
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