Actually, having just read that article now, it is a pretty well written piece I think.
>From what I read in the Washington Times article and elsewhere, it looks as if the facts were roughly thus: Bush DOJ brought a criminal complaint but then downgraded it to a civil complaint. That civil complaint was handed off to the Obama DOJ. There were not any voters who complained about intimidation, however, a poll worker seems to have complained. The Washington Times claims that there was an affidavit from the poll worker that was never entered into evidence for some reason. I haven't seen that detail anywhere else, so I don't know if it is true or not. The 3 defendants did not fight the complaints so the DOJ was pursuing a default judgement. The higher ups in the DOJ dropped charges against the two defendants who did not have any weapons, one of which was there as an elected precinct captain. The one defendant that did have a weapon, a stick/club in this case, did have a default judgement entered in against him. So it seems like the issue is why did the DOJ drop the default judgement against the two defendants who did not have weapons. I think that it is rather difficult to have a case when there weren't any voters who actually complained about intimidation, but if the defendants refuse to involve themselves it certainly seems like they could have gotten the default judgement against the other two defendants. Sounds like something worth inquiring about. Looks like Rep. Wolf from Virginia has asked Holder further about the matter. The DOJ spokesperson has responded. I suspect that we'll see a more personal response from Holder to Wolf soon. http://thehill.com/homenews/house/50009-gop-holder-battle-over-new-black-panthers Judah On Thu, Jul 15, 2010 at 11:08 AM, Larry C. Lyons <[email protected]> wrote: > > Also look at the source of the article, Washington Time? The Rev. > Moon's mouthpiece paper is even less Fair and Balanced than Faux News. > > On Thu, Jul 15, 2010 at 1:54 PM, Eric Roberts > <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> That's the civil complaint...not the criminal complaint. >> >> On Jul 15, 2010 11:32 AM, "Sam" <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> >> http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2009/may/29/career-lawyers-overruled-on-voting-case/?feat=home_cube_position1 >> >> The lawyers also had ascertained that one of the three men had gained >> access to the polling place by securing a credential as a Democratic >> poll watcher, according to interviews and documents reviewed by The >> Washington Times. >> >> The career Justice lawyers were on the verge of securing sanctions >> against the men earlier this month when their superiors ordered them >> to reverse course, according to interviews and documents. The court >> had already entered a default judgment against the men on April 20. >> >> >> On Thu, Jul 15, 2010 at 11:56 AM, Eric Roberts >> <[email protected]> wrote: >>> >>> That is... ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Order the Adobe Coldfusion Anthology now! http://www.amazon.com/Adobe-Coldfusion-Anthology-Michael-Dinowitz/dp/1430272155/?tag=houseoffusion Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/message.cfm/messageid:323132 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/unsubscribe.cfm
