J. Christian Adams
Encyclopedia
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.
. 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
, 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.
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. Adams operates the Election Law Center blog
.
Adam's allegations of racial bias in the Justice Department were described as "fantasies" by vice chairwoman of the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights, Abigail Thernstrom
; 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.". However, Coates' subsequent testimony before the United States Civil Rights Commission supported Adams' allegations., 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."
United States Department of Justice
The United States Department of Justice , is the United States federal executive department responsible for the enforcement of the law and administration of justice, equivalent to the justice or interior ministries of other countries.The Department is led by the Attorney General, who is nominated...
official who has accused the department of racial bias in its handling of a voter intimidation case
New Black Panther Party voter intimidation case
The New Black Panther Party voter intimidation case, sometimes known simply as the Black Panther Case, is a political controversy in the United States concerning an incident that occurred during the 2008 election...
against members of the New Black Panther Party.
Career
Adams previously was a poll monitor during the 2004 presidential campaign for George W. BushGeorge W. Bush
George Walker Bush is an American politician who served as the 43rd President of the United States, from 2001 to 2009. Before that, he was the 46th Governor of Texas, having served from 1995 to 2000....
. 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 SchlozmanBradley Schlozman
Bradley J. Schlozman is an American attorney who served as acting head of the Civil Rights Division of the United States Department of Justice under Attorney General Alberto Gonzales. Schlozman was also later appointed by Gonzales as the interim U.S. Attorney for the Western District of Missouri,...
, 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.
Adams was supervised by Civil Rights Division attorney Christopher Coates
Christopher Coates
Christopher Coates is a U.S. Justice Department official and former ACLU lawyer. He stepped down as Voting Section chief in December 2009 and transferred to the U.S. Attorney's office in South Carolina. He was involved in a prominent case over voter intimidation that was later dropped, and was not...
, who stepped down as chief of the voting division in December 2009 amid controversy over the dropping of the voter intimidation case. Adams operates the Election Law Center blog
Blog
A blog is a type of website or part of a website supposed to be updated with new content from time to time. Blogs are usually maintained by an individual with regular entries of commentary, descriptions of events, or other material such as graphics or video. Entries are commonly displayed in...
.
Adam's allegations of racial bias in the Justice Department were described as "fantasies" by vice chairwoman of the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights, Abigail Thernstrom
Abigail Thernstrom
Abigail Thernstrom, a conservative political scientist, is a former Senior Fellow at the Manhattan Institute in New York, a member of the Massachusetts Board of Education, and vice chair of the United States Commission on Civil Rights. She received her Ph.D...
; 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.". However, Coates' subsequent testimony before the United States Civil Rights Commission supported Adams' allegations., 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."
Publications
- Injustice: Exposing the Racial Agenda of the Obama Justice Department (October 3, 2011)