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
37 Pages Posted: 27 Feb 2018
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
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