Statement of Gail Heriot in the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights' Report: Race Neutral Enforcement of the Law?: DOJ and the New Black Panther Party Litigation

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Gail L. Heriot

American Civil Rights Project; U.S. Commission on Civil Rights; Manhattan Institute

Date Written: 2010

Abstract

In late 2010, the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights released a report entitled Race Neutral Enforcement of the Law?: DOJ and the New Black Panther Party Litigation (An Interim Report). This Statement was part of that report. It discusses accusations that the Department of Justice’s Civil Rights Division failed to execute the law in a race neutral manner in disposing of the litigation over the New Black Panther Party incident in Philadelphia in 2008. The Statement also discusses evidence that the Civil Rights Division has failed to execute the law in a race neutral manner on other occasions, including United States v. Brown, which involved election irregularities in Noxubee County, Mississippi.

Keywords: Commission on Civil Rights, voter intimidation, New Black Panther Party, voting rights, Department of Justice, civil rights, race, Civil Rights Division, race neutrality

JEL Classification: A00, A10, K10

Suggested Citation

Heriot, Gail L., Statement of Gail Heriot in the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights' Report: Race Neutral Enforcement of the Law?: DOJ and the New Black Panther Party Litigation (2010). Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=3130236 or http://dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.3130236

Gail L. Heriot (Contact Author)

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