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- The seven Republicans on the Senate Judiciary Committee have sent a letter to Sen. Patrick Leahy, the committee chairman, calling for a hearing on potential “widespread politicization and possible corruption” in the Justice Department, The Hill reports.
The call for a hearing is tied to allegations that the Justice Department’s Civil Rights Division has been politicized, as evidenced by a decision to drop most of a federal lawsuit against members of the New Black Panther Party, who were videotaped allegedly intimidating voters at a Philadelphia polling place on Election Day in November 2008.
The incident took place in a predominantly African-American, Democrat-voting district.
