A Republican-appointed member of the panel probing why voter intimidation charges were dropped against the New Black Panther Party said Sunday that the case was flimsy and stood by an earlier claim that some of her colleagues are hammering the issue to bring down Attorney General Eric Holder.
Abigail Thernstrom, vice chairwoman of the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights, has over the past several weeks publicly broken from fellow commission members trying to escalate the probe.
Her colleagues are looking into why the Justice Department abandoned most charges against New Black Panther members, one wielding a club, outside a Philadelphia polling station in 2008 — the case took a turn this month after an ex-Justice official claimed the department as a matter of policy does not pursue cases that involve black defendants and white victims.
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