Michael Yaki

Surprise! Investigation Doesn't End GOP Complaints About New Black Panther Case

Ryan J. Reilly | March 30, 2011, 2:35PM

Nearly two and a half years after two members of the New Black Panther Party stood outside a polling station in Philadelphia -- and after an extensive internal probe found no improper political influence of the Justice Department's decision to drop a civil voter intimidation case against all but one of the defendants -- conservatives are showing no signs they'll let the issue drop.

As TPM reported yesterday, the Justice Department said in a letter to members of Congress that after an extensive investigation, they found that neither the race of the defendants or political considerations affected the Justice Department's handling of the voter intimidation case.

But many on the right smell a cover up. FoxNation.com called it a "whitewash." J. Christian Adams, the conservative lawyer hired during the Bush administration who was one of two Civil Rights Division Voting Section line attorneys who filed case, wrote for the website Pajamas Media that the "fix came in."

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Topics: Michael Yaki, New Black Panthers

Michael Yaki

Civil Rights Commission May Examine Anti-Muslim Discrimination

Ryan J. Reilly | March 8, 2011, 12:00PM

Michael Yaki, a former member of the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights who is awaiting reappointment, tells TPM he's planning to propose the federal body examine the rise of anti-Islam and anti-Arab discrimination in America once he rejoins the agency.

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Topics: Islamophobia, Michael Yaki, New Black Panthers, Pete King, U.S. Commission on Civil Rights