DEMANDING JUSTICE - AT 11:08 P.M. ET:  From tomorrow's Washington Times: 

A senior House Republican on Thursday introduced a "resolution of inquiry" that would require the House Judiciary Committee to seek answers on why the Justice Department dismissed a civil complaint against members of the New Black Panther Party who disrupted a Philadelphia polling place in last year's elections.

It's about time.

Rep. Frank R. Wolf of Virginia also said he had language inserted in the Justice Department's annual spending bill requiring that its Office of Professional Responsibility (OPR) provide to the House Appropriations Committee the results of OPR's investigation surrounding the dismissal of the case.

Mr. Wolf, a senior member of the Appropriations Committee's commerce, justice and science subcommittee, and Rep. Lamar Smith of Texas, ranking Republican on the House Judiciary Committee, requested an investigation into the case earlier this year.

COMMENT:  The dismissal of this case was a major Justice Department scandal.  The Black Panthers had engaged in blatant, photographed, voter intimidation.  Had it happened in the Bush administration, and a case against some corporation been dismissed, the press would have gone into fits of hysteria, requiring government-paid hospitalization.

December 17, 2009