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Encouraging everyone to take a look at the statute under which we operate. weren independent commission and we dont have any enforcement authority. we are charged with asking questions and shedding light on particular civil rights issues and ensuring that the federal agencies charged with protecting civil rights are, in fact, doing their job. so i think were doing exactly what we should be doing, asking questions, not accusing anyone of anything, but asking difficult questions and requiring a pu...

Working on this case said it was clear cut. they were moving forward. >> slam dunk. >> they were shot. when political appointees of the obama administration told them to drop the case. dont think they got a convincing reason. then you have christian adams a career civil servant at the department of justice having to make the tough decision to leave his job which he decided to do. he had resigned. he worked so hard but decided it was not acceptable to him to have to live under that so he resigned...

Down on arizona for defending their basic right to protect the border. >> are we dealing with a bigger picture here? that is how the justice department is politicized to an extent we havent seen before. the latest example, if a department of justice official quit over the black panman case, remember philadelphia polling place, guys with the baton. >> the new black panther party. >> white cracker, their intimidation efforts. >> at the poll. >> they have the conviction because they never showed up...

Aliens. im not sure about the strategy. 77% of arizonans supporting new law. some of them must be. president may be miscalculating. once again president obama finds himself at odds with the folks. never a good thing. analysis of the panther situation and the illegal alien columbus. attorneys and fiewnsz analysts kimbler live guilfoyle on. >> should the justice department have prosecuted the panthers? >> of course. there is absolute any no reason. look at the video they didnt prosecute. use of th...

>> better criminal investigation. the federal government sued -- the people who did this and a full judgment against them. that default judgment is worth the same as this piece of paper. not very much. the federal government didnt get any money. they werent punished in any way. the guy with the nightstick signed a piece of paper saying i wont show up with a nightstick for the next three years. what does that mean? can he show up with a nightstick after three years? the government obviously doesn...

They did win a default judgment against several members when they didnt show up in april 2009 at a court hearing. since that time, other attorneys from within the department have said the justice department ultimately dropped the case, dismissed charges against those individuals and some within the department, including christian adams, say there are politics at play. he is going to testify before the u.s. civil rights commission. he is the only witness. they are slated in three hours. he will b...

Says the legal standard for these cases is very high. theres been a total of three prosecutions of these types of cases since the beginning. and the doj, reasonable people can differ and it had every right to yang this case even though it was won own a default judgment. your response. >> everybody who practices law, i know megyn you practice as well. everybody knows once you have a default judgment you offer a proffer to the judge of the evidence that you would have offered at trial. in this cas...

Pursued. >> there was no doubt in anybodys mind at least not the people who were working hard on the case there was no doubt. megyn: you bring the case against the four defendants, the two guys we see on calm rat party and head of the party and what happens next? >> well, you cruise along. the defendants didnt even appear, they didnt even answer they just ignored the charges. megyn: they didnt bother it to defend it in any way. >> they didnt show up for court, they didnt file any papers, they di...

Him uniformly was that he is the real deal. is he a legitimate lawyer. is he a very well respected lawyer and for him to be doing this is as extraordinary as it seems. >> laura: megyn, what did you find out about who set the standard, set the rules here in place for how this case would be handled? he came on my radio show this morning i was trying to say is it coming from eric holder. he wouldnt quite say. eric holder is the guy in charge. is there a reason to think that he was, you know, settin...

Him uniformly was that he is the real deal. is he a legitimate lawyer. is he a very well respected lawyer and for him to be doing this is as extraordinary as it seems. laura: megyn, what did you find out about who set the standard, set the rules here in place for how this case would be handled? he came on my radio show this morning i was trying to say is it coming from eric holder. he wouldnt quite say. eric holder is the guy in charge. is there a reason to think that he was, you know, setting d...