Christopher Coates testifies about race-based justice at the Obama Department of Justice.

Christopher Coates, the former voting chief for the Justice Department’s Civil Rights Division, testifies under oath, in defiance of Attorney General Eric Holder, to the Civil Rights Commission on the Justice Department’s race-based prosecution methods.

The hearing at the Civil Rights Commission concerned the sudden dismissal of the Black Panther voter intimidation case, which Coates claimed was racially motivated. Coates is repeating the explosive allegation that the Justice Department will not prosecute civil rights offensives where the victims are white and the accused are black or other minority.

The Black Panther voter intimidation case concerned an incident at a Philadelphia polling place during the 2008 election, when two members of the New Black Panther Party appeared in para-military garb, one brandishing a club, yelling racial slurs at people trying to vote. The Justice Department’s career lawyers had gotten a default judgment against the Panthers, only to be overruled by Obama administration appointees.

According to Fox News:

“He said civil rights attorneys stick to cases that involve minority victims, and he said the Black Panther case was dismissed following ‘pressure’ by the NAACP and ‘anger’ at the case within the Justice Department itself.

“‘That anger was the result of their deep-seated opposition to the equal enforcement of the Voting Rights Act against racial minorities and for the protection of white voters who have been discriminated against,’ he said.

“He said a 2005 case against a black official in Mississippi over voter intimidation claims had stirred a backlash in the department and from civil rights groups — and that the New Black Panther case was no different. “

Coates, since raising the issue of race-based justice at the Department of Justice, was punished by being sent to the South Carolina office of the U.S. Attorney. He was ordered not to testify before the Civil Rights Commission, even though he was subpoenaed. Coates has decided to testify anyway, believing that he is covered by whistleblower protection legislation.