Civil rights commission: New Black Panthers case ongoing

Read more here at NRO, by Peter Kirsanow, Civil Rights Commission member.

There are several assertions broadly circulating in the media about the New Black Panther Party matter that are inaccurate or misleading. These are the most commonly repeated:

1. The U.S. Commission on Civil Rights’s investigation is confined to the reasons behind the Department of Justice’s dismissal of the voter-intimidation case against the New Black Panther Party.

False: The Commission investigation has four principal areas of inquiry:

A. Whether high-level political appointees within the Department of Justice have enunciated a policy or tolerate a practice of enforcing certain civil-rights laws in a racially discriminatory manner;