While I Was Away, What Chris Coates Did Say

The video is archived here.  And for those feared that Coates would break the DOIJ testimony embargo just to put over his corrupt, racist superiors, you needn't have worried:

In June 2009, the Election Assistance Commission (EAC) issued its bi-annual report concerning which states appeared not to be complying with Section 8′s list maintenance requirements. The report identified eight states that appeared to be the worst in terms of their non-compliance with the list maintenance requirements of Section 8 [of the Voting Rights Act]. These were states that reported that no voters had been removed from any of their voters’ list in the last two years. Obviously this is a good indication that something is not right with the list maintenance practice in that state. As Chief of the Voting Section, I assigned attorneys to work on this matter, and in September 2009, I forwarded a memorandum to the CRD Front Office asking for approval to go forward with Section 8 list maintenance investigations in these states.

During the time that I was Chief, no approval was given to this project, and my understanding that approval has never been given for that Section 8 list maintenance project to date. That means that we have entered the 2010 election cycle with eight states appearing to be in major noncompliance with the list maintenance requirements of Section 8 of the NVRA, and yet the Voting Section which has the responsibility to enforce that law has yet to take any action. From these circumstances I believe that Ms. Fernandez’s statement to the Voting Section in November 2009 not, in effect, initiate Section 8 list maintenance enforcement activities has been complied with.

What do the eight states in question have in common?  Do you even have to ask?:

Further, not to enforce the list maintenance provisions of Section 8 are likely to have partisan consequences as well. A number of the jurisdictions that have bloated registration lists are where there are sizable minority populations and are Democratic strongholds.

Is this sort of blatantly anti-democratic (small "d") misconduct anything new to the Civil Rights Division of the Department of Injustice & Revenge?  Yes, in the sense of the seeds of racism and radicalism were always there, buried deep in the bowels of the permanent bureaucracy, just waiting for a Regime to come along and put them in the policy drivers' seat:

Opposition within the Voting Section was widespread to taking actions under the VRA on behalf of white voters in Noxubee County, MS, the jurisdiction in which Ike Brown was and is the Chairman of the local Democratic Executive Committee.  In 2003, white voters and candidates complained to the Voting Section that elections had been administered in a racially discriminatory manner and asked that federal observers be sent to the primary run-off elections.  Career attorneys in the Voting Section recommended that we not even go to Noxubee County for the primary run-off to do election coverage, but that opposition to going to Noxubee was overridden by the Bush Administration’s CRD Front Office.  I went on the coverage and while traveling to Mississippi, the Deputy Chief who was leading that election coverage asked me, “can you believe that we are going to Mississippi to protect white voters?”  What I observed on that election coverage was some of the most outrageous and blatant racially discriminatory behavior at the polls committed by Ike Brown and his allies that I have seen or had reported to me in my thirty-three plus years as a voting rights litigator....

In the spring of 2009, Ms. King, who had by then been appointed Acting AAG for Civil Rights by the Obama administration, called me to her office and specifically instructed me that I was not to ask any other applicants whether they would be willing to, in effect, race-neutrally enforce the VRA.  Ms. King took offense that I was asking such a question of job applicants and directed me not to ask it because she does not support equal enforcement of the provisions of the VRA and had been highly critical of the filing and prosecution of the Ike Brown case.

So there it is.  Something that we right-wing cynics always suspected so strongly that we considered it fact, now being confirmed from the inside - and by a former ACLU attorney, no less.  The Obama regime is officially breaking its constitutional oath to faithfully execute the laws of the United States by enforcing them deliberately unequally to favor the Li'l President's partisan and racial allies at the expense of his partisan and racial enemies.

It'll be a "bombshell" of sorts to the vast majority that don't pay attention to politics most of the time....except that so many more Americans ARE paying attention precisely BECAUSE of what Red Barry and his Obamunist myrmidons have been and are doing to the country.  It won't have a huge impact in and of itself, but it will reinforce the general majority impression that this Regime is out of control and desperately needs to be checked by a Republican Congress.

Chairman Issa's investigatory agenda just got significantly longer.