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Biden DOJ Enlists Kristen Clarke, Who Defended Black Nationalists Charged With Voter Intimidation, To Combat Voter Intimidation

Chuck Ross   
April 18, 2024

Justice Department civil rights chief Kristen Clarke released guidelines this week on how to report cases of voter intimidation, asserting that "voter intimidation has no place in our democracy." Years earlier, Clarke defended a New Black Panther Party member who threatened a Philadelphia poll worker while brandishing a club.

As a civil rights attorney in 2009, Clarke lobbied the Obama administration to drop a case against members of the New Black Panther Party charged with intimidating voters and poll workers in Philadelphia. Two members of the militant group, one holding a billy club, called black poll workers working for the GOP "race traitors" and said there "would be hell to pay" because of the workers' party affiliation.

A Justice Department lawyer told a federal oversight panel that Clarke, then a lawyer with the NAACP Legal Defense Fund, "was lobbying for the dismissal of the New Black Panther Party case before it was dismissed." Clarke during her 2021 Senate confirmation hearing dodged questions about her involvement, telling lawmakers that "there were many people who deemed that a weak case." The Bush administration filed the case in January 2009, but the Obama administration dropped it months later, drawing widespread allegations of political interference.

Clarke's involvement in the matter could raise concerns that the Biden administration will apply a double standard to voter intimidation cases in the upcoming election. Some Republicans have cited the case of Douglass Mackey, convicted of voter suppression for posting memes on social media that encouraged black voters to vote by text message for Hillary Clinton. Mackey, who was arrested days after Biden took office, was sentenced last year to seven months in prison.

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NIL works in college.  Why not politics?

Because you are taking the image/name/likeness of a private person and using it for commercial endorsements.  You can't state or imply publicly a person's commercial endorsement of something without their permission.

However, if an athlete makes gratuitous public statements about a product, like in an interview or something, then that commercial entity could use those words without paying NiL because the player put those words in the public domain of their own volition.  Image and likeness would still require compensation, though.

Trump is a public political figure, so his public statements regarding political matters, including any endorsements, are a matter of public record and can be repeated by anyone.  For either positive or negative purposes.

https://twitter.com/spectatorindex/status/1781152581034934278

Courageous Iranian Air Force hangars and buildings intercepted several Israeli missiles.

There I was, flying over Papua in a Piper Cub with Amelia Earhart and John Denver. Amelia piloted, I was the navigator, John sang. I was wearing my aviator glasses.

Suddenly, there was a flash of light! Surface-to-air missiles - We're hit! We're going down! The engine screamed. Amelia screamed. I screamed. John sang, "To live on the land we must learn from the sea."

Amelia snapped at him, "Quiet, you idiot! We're about to learn from the sea up close and personal, unless I can get this plane on the sand."

WHAM! We hit the beach with a deafening thud. A thousand, no, million billion, hundred ... anyway, you know, the thing ... pygmy cannibals ran from the jungle and surrounded us. With a terrifying cry, they opened the doors to the plane and pulled us out. John said, "Wait! My guitar!" So one of them retrieved his guitar.

They started a bonfire and filled a giant pot with water. One of them added a little salt.

"You might want to add a mirepoix, too," I suggested, "And a bouquet garni, maybe?"

John said, "Yes, that would really fill up my senses."

The cannibals ignored our suggestions, and the water heated up. "When are you going to throw us into the pot?" I asked. "When I lived in the 'hood, the homies always brought the water to a boil, then added the protein, and reduced the temp to a simmer until the meat was tender. We all learned that at the local bodega, right after Jewish school. In Scranton. Around the time my son Beau stormed the beaches of Normandy."

The cannibal chief looked at me like I was nuts. "We're not going to cook you, you stupid stringy-ass old white man. We're making pasta. But if you want a drink while we're waiting for it to cook, try some of this."

"Mmm," John said. "Misty taste of moonshine! Thank God I'm a country boy, yee haw."