The conservative-controlled U.S. Commission on Civil Rights will vote tomorrow on a report — obtained by TPMMuckraker — slamming the Justice Department’s handling of the case against the New Black Panther Party for a 2008 incident in Philadelphia in which a member showed up at a Philadelphia polling place and brandished a nightstick.DOJ has defended their decision to only pursue a case against individual who held the nightstick — and not the other individual at the polling place that day or on the national party. But the report authored by the conservative majority of the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights claims that evidence obtained by the Commission calls DOJ’s version of events, including that the decision was made by career lawyers, into serious doubt.
This is a companion discussion topic for the original entry at https://talkingpointsmemo.com/?p=119222