J. Christian Adams

J. Christian Adams is a former United States Department of Justice official who has accused the department of racial bias in its handling of a voter intimidation case against members of the New Black Panther Party.^[1][2][3]

Career

Adams previously was a poll monitor during the 2004 presidential campaign for George W. Bush ^[4]. With the DOJ, Adams was counsel on numerous cases including Georgetown, SC, Lake Park, FL, and Noxubee County, MS. http://www.justice.gov/crt/about/vot/litigation/caselist.php

Civil Rights Division

Adams was hired in 2005 by then-Civil Rights Division political appointee Bradley Schlozman, who was later found by the Civil Rights Division's Inspector General and Office of Professional Responsibility to have violated civil service rules by improperly taking political and ideological affiliations into account when making career attorney hires.^[4]

Adams was supervised by Civil Rights Division attorney Christopher Coates, who stepped down as chief of the voting division in December 2009 amid controversy over the dropping of the voter intimidation case.^[5] Adams operates the Election Law Center blog.^[6] Adam's allegations of racial bias in the Justice Department have been described as "fantasies" by vice chairwoman of the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights, Abigail Thernstrom.^[7] Thernstrom found the Justice Department arguments that different lawyers disagreed over whether to prosecute the "perfectly plausible" given that "after months of hearings, testimony and investigation, no one has produced any actual evidence that any voters were too scared to cast their ballots.".^[8] However, Coates' subsequent testimony before the United States Civil Rights Commission supported Adams' allegations.^[9], and the Commission's report found that "This Interim Report is the story of a cover-up of a possible racial double standard in law enforcement in the Civil Rights Division of the U.S. Department of Justice," and, detailing "a year of DOJ’s intransigence and baseless refusals to comply with our subpoenas," that "the Department of Justice is unquestionably hostile to any serious investigation of these allegations."^[10]

Publications

• ''Injustice: Exposing the Racial Agenda of the Obama Justice Department''^[11] (October 3, 2011)

See also

• Christopher Coates
• New Black Panther Party voter intimidation case

References

1. ^ "Ex-Official Accuses Justice Department of Racial Bias in Black Panther Case". FOXNews.com. 2010-04-07. http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2010/07/06/ex-official-accuses-justice-department-racial-bias-black-panther-case/. Retrieved 2010-07-06. 
2. ^ "J. Christian Adams – Bio, News, Photos". Washington Times. http://www.washingtontimes.com/topics/j-christian-adams/. Retrieved 2010-07-06. 
3. ^ Turner, Channing. "Adams: ‘Lawless’ Civil Rights Division Dismissed Black Panther Case – Main Justice". Mainjustice.com. http://www.mainjustice.com/2010/07/06/adams-lawless-civil-rights-division-dismissed-black-panther-case/. Retrieved 2010-07-06. 
4. ^ ^{a b} Reilly, Ryan J. (2009-12-02). "DOJ Attorney Fights to Testify About Black Panthers". Mainjustice.com. http://www.mainjustice.com/2009/12/02/doj-attorney-fights-to-testify-about-black-panthers/. Retrieved 2010-07-14. 
5. ^ Reilly, Ryan J.. "Voting Section Chief Out Amid Controversy – Main Justice". Mainjustice.com. http://www.mainjustice.com/2009/12/27/voting-section-chief-out-amid-controversy/. Retrieved 2010-07-06. 
6. ^ J. Christian Adams (2010-06-25). "ADAMS: Inside the Black Panther case". Washington Times. http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2010/jun/25/inside-the-black-panther-case-anger-ignorance-and-/?page=2. Retrieved 2010-07-06. 
7. ^ http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0710/39861.html
8. ^ http://www.nationalreview.com/articles/243408/new-black-panther-case-br-conservative-dissent-abigail-thernstrom
9. ^ http://www.nationalreview.com/corner/247747/coates-testifies-civil-rights-commission-daniel-foster
10. ^ Race Neutral Enforcement of the Law? The U.S. Department of Justice and the New Black Panther Party Litigation: An Interim Report, http://www.usccr.gov/NBPH/USCCR_NBPP_report.pdf
11. ^ Amazon.com

External links

• Election Law Center
• Pajamas Media Contributor Page

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