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Jerry Seper

jseper@washingtontimes.com

Jerry Seper was a writer for The Washington Times.

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Formal inquiry sought in polling case

A senior House Republican plans Wednesday to introduce a "resolution of inquiry" calling on the House Judiciary Committee to formally ask Attorney General Eric H. Holder Jr. to explain why the Justice Department dismissed a civil complaint against the New Black Panther Party after party members disrupted a Philadelphia polling place in last year's elections.

January 12, 2010

Two killed in Las Vegas courthouse shootout

Two people, including a court officer, were killed in a gunfight at a Las Vegas federal court building on Monday, the same day the Justice Department in Washington issued a report saying threats to federal judges and prosecutors had more than doubled in the past six years.

January 5, 2010

Justice Dept. moves Panthers pursuer to S.C.

The veteran Justice Department voting rights section chief who recommended going forward on a civil complaint against members of the New Black Panther Party after they disrupted a Pennsylvania polling place in last year's elections has been removed from his post and transferred to the U.S. attorney's office in South Carolina.

December 29, 2009

Wolf presses for new Black Panther probe

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.

December 18, 2009

Justice Department restrains lawyers in Panther probe

The Justice Department has told the federal attorneys who filed a civil complaint against the New Black Panther Party for disrupting a Philadelphia polling place last year not to cooperate with an investigation of the incident by the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights.

December 16, 2009

Justice Dept. subpoenaed in New Black Panthers case

The U.S. Commission on Civil Rights, frustrated by the Justice Department's failure to explain the dismissal of charges against New Black Panther Party members who disrupted a Philadelphia polling place during last year's elections, has subpoenaed the department demanding records showing how the case was handled.

December 9, 2009

Lawmakers hit silence on Panther complaint

Two senior lawmakers said the Justice Department again refused to say why it "wrongfully dismissed" a civil complaint against members of the New Black Panther Party who were accused of voter intimidation at a Philadelphia polling place.

December 3, 2009

Strike forces target Medicare fraud

Starting in 2007, federal, state and local law enforcement officials came together in South Florida to hunt down and charge people with defrauding the Medicare system.

December 1, 2009

Nixing of Panthers complaint starts probe

Two senior House Republicans want the Justice Department to make public any reports or statements given to internal investigators by the career department lawyers who brought a civil complaint against the New Black Panther Party (NBPP) that later was dismissed by President Obama's political appointees.

November 20, 2009

Bush aide urges weapons ban to slow Mexican drug war

The former head of U.S. Customs and Border Protection called Monday for the U.S. to reinstitute the ban on assault weapons and take other measures to rein in the war between Mexico and its drug cartels, saying the violence has the potential to bring down legitimate rule in that country.

November 17, 2009

Black Panthers denounce ‘new’ Panthers

The New Black Panther Party catapulted itself to national attention during the November 2008 presidential election when two of its members, one brandishing a nightstick, were captured on videotape intimidating voters at a Philadelphia polling place.

November 16, 2009

EXCLUSIVE: Rental industry hopes to buy influence on Hill

For more than a decade, the rent-to-own industry has watched as 20 separate pieces of federal legislation it supported failed in Congress. After years of frustration, it decided to assert itself more aggressively.

October 26, 2009

Anti-gunrunning lauded, questioned

Just days after the Justice Department said its anti-gunrunning project on the U.S.-Mexico border had made "enormous inroads into stemming firearms-related violent crime" and touted a planned expansion of the program, the department's Office of Inspector General on Monday said some funding for the $22 million project was not being properly used.

October 6, 2009

Civil Rights pick to get Senate vote

The long-stalled bid to install President Obama's choice as head of the Justice Department's Office of Civil Rights is finally heading for a vote on the Senate floor Tuesday.

October 6, 2009

U.S. panel chides Holder in Panther probe

The U.S. Commission on Civil Rights asked Attorney General Eric H. Holder Jr. on Wednesday to name a Justice Department official to oversee the production of what it called "our overdue information requests" for documents in the dismissal of a civil complaint against members of the New Black Panther Party accused of disrupting a Philadelphia polling place in the November elections.

October 1, 2009

Holder asked to quicken probe of Black Panther case

The U.S. Commission on Civil Rights asked Attorney General Eric H. Holder Jr. on Wednesday to name a Justice Department official to oversee the production of what it called "our overdue information requests" for documents in the dismissal of a civil complaint against New Black Panther Party members accused of disrupting a polling place in the November elections.

September 30, 2009

EXCLUSIVE: Inquiry opened into New Black Panther case

The Justice Department's Office of Professional Responsibility has begun an official inquiry into the dismissal in May of a civil complaint against the New Black Panther Party and two of its members who disrupted a Philadelphia polling place during the November general elections.

September 9, 2009