belief chris coates used a term hostility within the department to such cases. they don t believe the voting rights laws were enacted for the benefit of white people and they don t care even if a society where we have a black president, a black attorney general, a black supreme court justice. they don t care whether those laws are still not being enforced to protect whites. that s exactly what he said. bill: but the climate of this kind of an attitude didn t happen when barack obama was elected. it was there way before that. no. and chris coates talks about how they never these cases. how they brought up this case against ike brown. the second one they brought like in the history of the voting rights act was the new black panther case. as soon as the obama administration got into control they made them yank it. he says that s because there is this attitude, he calls it a deep seeded opposition to the equal enforcement of the voting rights act against racial minorities and for the
i would say. i don t know. he didn t testify exactly what it was that did it judicial watch obtained some documents that cast some serious doubted on testimony given by a guy name tom herez to the commission on civil rights and other instances that may have led mr. coates to realize it is finally time. bill: okay, there are two stories here. the black panther story itself, which isn t really a big story. they are thugs. they should have been prosecuted. they probably auto would have got minimum sentence if convicted. it s an interesting story but not huge story. just to correct something in your talking points, you said that eric holder failed to bring a criminal investigation. it was the bush administration that failed to bring a criminal investigation. they brought a civil investigation. afternoon that s what holder dropped after he won it. bill: but holder wouldn t bring criminal charges. neither bush nor holder would bring criminal. bill: okay. he could have? either o
victim is white, that there is a belief chris coates used a term hostility within the department to such cases. they don t believe the voting rights laws were enacted for the benefit of white people and they don t care even if a society where we have a black president, a black attorney general, a black supreme court justice. they don t care whether those laws are still not being enforced to protect whites. that s exactly what he said. bill: but the climate of this kind of an attitude didn t happen when barack obama was elected. it was there way before that. no. and chris coates talks about how they never these cases. how they brought up this case against ike brown. the second one they brought like in the history of the voting rights act was the new black panther case. as soon as the obama administration got into control they made them yank it. he says that s because there is this attitude, he calls it a deep seeded opposition to the equal enforcement of the voting rights act agai
selective manner. bill: his comments echo those of j. christian davis a justice department attorney who worked in the justice department. a few months ago megyn kelly interviewed mr. adams. do you believe that the doj has a policy now of not pursuing cases if the defendant is black and victim is white? particularly in voting, in voting that will be the case over the next few years. there is no doubt about it. is the department of justice corrupt? i think the decision to dismiss this case was corrupt. i don t think the department or the fine people who work there are corrupt but, in this particular instance, to abandon law abiding citizens and abet wrong doers constitutes corruption. bill: so there seems to be little doubt that attorney general holder did not uphold the law which is his sworn duty. whether whether there is racism in his department is a matter of debate but certainly the accusation is troubling. as for mr. coates he is not some right wing guy he worked for th
enforcement of section 5 and continue to enforce those provisions in a racially selective manner. bill: his comments echo those of j. christian davis a justice department attorney who worked in the justice department. a few months ago megyn kelly interviewed mr. adams. do you believe that the doj has a policy now of not pursuing cases if the defendant is black and victim is white? particularly in voting, in voting that will be the case over the next few years. there is no doubt about it. is the department of justice corrupt? i think the decision to dismiss this case was corrupt. i don t think the department or the fine people who work there are corrupt but, in this particular instance, to abandon law abiding citizens and abet wrong doers constitutes corruption. bill: so there seems to be little doubt that attorney general holder did not uphold the law which is his sworn duty. whether whether there is racism in his department is a matter of debate but certainly the accusatio