polling station. >> i think that it is a little intimidating that you have a stick in your hand. >> reporter: the bush justice department brought a suit, but the obama civil rights division dropped most of it prompting a lawyer to quit his job in order to testify that under this administration, d.o.j. will not pursue voting rights cases against african-americans. >> there is a pervasive hostility toward equal enforcement of the law particularly in voting cases. >> reporter: the department insists that it practices race-neutral enforcement. >> the obama admin stragistrati under the leadership of eric holder will enforce the laws, applying the facts to the laws. >> reporter: the civil rights commission is investigating, and just as it has provided thousands of pages of documents and has not allowed a key official to testify to protect the confidentiality of internal deliberations it says, but some members of the republican-dominated commission argue that the department is stonewalling.