Apr 11, 2011 – The American Constitution Society certainly knows how to pick its speakers. The Washington, D.C., chapter is having a brown bag lunch discussion on April 26 at the law firm of Jenner & Block on “Voting Rights and Redistricting.” The featured speaker will be J. Gerald Hebert. The...

Apr 26, 2011 – Pajamas Media broke the story last week about the draft Executive Order being circulated by the White House that would implement portions of the DISCLOSE Act on federal contractors.  Now Sen. Susan Collins (who oversees federal contracting as the ranking minority member of the Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee)...

Jul 12, 2012 – Christian Adams has reported on the ridiculous 18-year old witness presented on Wednesday by DOJ in the Texas voter ID trial who said her parents were too busy to take her to get an ID – but she had plenty of time to travel to the airport in San Antonio...

Mar 31, 2011 – Should a lawyer who has participated in unprofessional conduct be awarded with a judgeship? Consider the nomination of Donna Murphy to be a superior court judge in the District of Columbia. The president, of course, is responsible for nominating lawyers to be judges in our federal courts....

Sep 24, 2010 – Friday’s testimony before the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights by Christopher Coates — a career Justice Department lawyer and supervisor — knocked down the Potemkin Village that the Obama administration has built to obscure why Justice officials dismissed a voter-intimidation case against two members of...

Sep 23, 2010 – The news that Christopher Coates, former chief of the Justice Department’s Voting Section, is set to testify Friday before the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights is crucial to the panel’s investigation of allegations that the Obama administration has not enforced the nation’s civil rights laws in...

Sep 22, 2010 – In a dramatic development that could shake the political leadership of  the Justice Department, career lawyer Christopher Coates has sent a letter to the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights offering to testify Friday on matters related to the controversial New Black Panthers voter-intimidation case. Click here or on the screen...

Sep 20, 2010 – Over the last five years, the Bush administration’s Civil Rights Division has been subjected to blistering criticism, motivated almost exclusively by partisan and radical politics. The great bulk of these attacks have been penned by former lawyers from the Division, long considered to be the home...

Oct 23, 2010 – Talk about denial! A group of liberal activists is making the media rounds, assuring reporters and editors that election fraud is a fairy tale. Nothing serious, they assert, nothing to see here. Too bad for them that citizens in Houston, energized by the Tea Party movement, have...

Nov 18, 2010 – The New Black Panther Party voter-intimidation case, which has rocked the Justice Department, will reach an important endpoint on November 19. At its regular business meeting tomorrow, the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights will consider a draft report on its investigation of the Department’s scandalously politicized...

Dec 21, 2010 – So how does President Obama treat a political appointee who may have helped suborn perjury, obstruct an investigation, and make law enforcement decisions based on politics? By nominating him to a higher (but equally sensitive) political job, of course. Instead of being asked some tough questions, Leon Rodriguez is on...

Jul 26, 2011 – As David Steinberg points out, the latest hearings on Operation Fast & Furious are now ongoing at the House Committee on Oversight & Government Reform.  Chairman Darrell Issa and Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) released a second report this morning that includes several new findings: • There was little to...

Jul 21, 2011 – Watching the last shuttle, Atlantis, land this morning and reading fellow Pajamas Media contributor Christian Adams’ article about the end of the shuttle program is very depressing. I grew up in Rocket City, USA, (aka, Huntsville, Ala.), the home of the Marshall Space Flight Center. It was a...

Aug 8, 2011 – Recently released documents — disclosed by the Obama Justice Department only after a court battle — reveal that the Civil Rights Division at the Department of Justice is engaging in politicized hiring in the career civil service ranks. Typical Washington behavior, you say? Except the hiring in question is nearly...

Aug 16, 2011 – Last week, PJMedia published the first three of a series of articles highlighting the new career attorneys hired into the Department of Justice’s Civil Rights Division. The first two articles focused on the Voting Section; the third article focused on the Office of Special Counsel for Immigration-Related Unfair Employment Practices....

Aug 22, 2011 – For the last two weeks, PJMedia has been publishing a series of articles on the radical attorneys who have been hired as career civil servants in the Justice Department’s Civil Rights Division since President Obama took office. The reports reveal an unprecedented effort by Attorney General Eric Holder and his...

Aug 19, 2011 – Last week Pajamas Media reported on the liberal ideologues hired in the Special Litigation Section of the Justice Department’s Civil Rights Division.  This week provided a good example of how they can force local and state authorities to waste lots of taxpayer dollars and land the Department in a lot...

Sep 8, 2011 – For those of you interested in seeing the latest fireworks in the debate about new state voter ID laws, tune in this afternoon at 2:00 at Senator Durbin is holding a hearing of the Subcommittee on the Constitution, Civil Rights and Human Rights on “New State Voting Laws:...

Sep 20, 2022 – The Justice Department has hit the Eagle Forum of Alabama with a voluminous subpoena that violates the organization’s First Amendment rights to speak freely, engage in the political process, and talk to their elected representatives. It’s an intimidation tactic, pure and simple, and shows just how partisan the department has...

Jul 21, 2021 – I was on a long road trip several weeks ago, and Neil Young’s classic rock ballad “Southern Man” came on the radio. For those who don’t know this 1970 song or its history, Neil Young wrote it about the civil rights movement in the South, although a lot of Southerners...

Oct 4, 2017 – Parents, want to avoid having your kids unjustly accused of sexual assault? You might want to think twice before sending them to the University of Colorado and the University of Cincinnati. Colorado’s refusal to rescind its Obama-era guidelines that deny students basic due process rights and impose kangaroo courts should...

Feb 12, 2018 – A criminal referral on Christopher Steele by Sens. Chuck Grassley (R-IA) and Lindsey Graham (R-SC), sent on Jan. 4 to the Justice Department and the FBI, is now declassified — and it helps corroborate the claims in the Nunes FISA memo. Grassley and Graham want Steele investigated for providing...

Apr 16, 2018 – Did Rep. Devin Nunes (R-CA) really have to threaten to hold FBI Director Christopher Wray and Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein in contempt and to start impeachment proceedings? Apparently so. Nunes chairs the House Intelligence Committee. For almost eight months, Wray and Rosenstein stalled his request for an unredacted...

Mar 25, 2020 – COVID-19—is there anything the coronavirus can’t do? Sens. Amy Klobuchar (D-Minn.) and Ron Wyden (D-Ore.) seem to think it should make the feds tell the states how to run their elections. They’ve introduced a bill that would do just that. S. 3529, the “Natural Disaster and Emergency Ballot Act of...

Jul 21, 2012 – Hold onto your hats: On July 13, the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals issued a great decision. That’s right, the legendary Ninth — one of the nation’s most-overturned appeals courts — has for once rendered a decision well within the legal mainstream. And it was a decision that saved Frosted...