Holder Accused of Bias:  A story from Fox News reports that a former Justice Department attorney has accused Attorney General Eric Holder and political appointees in the Civil Rights Division of ordering him and other lawyers to drop charges against the New Black Panther Party. The charge was for violating the Voting Rights Act by threatening and intimidating voters in Philadelphia during the 2008 general election.  In an OpEd piece in last Friday's Washington Times, J. Christian Adams wrote, "Based on my firsthand experiences, I believe the dismissal of the Black Panther case was motivated by a lawless hostility toward equal enforcement of the law."  Adams, now a lawyer in Virginia said the voter intimidation case against the Black Panthers was  "the simplest and most obvious violation of federal law I saw in my Justice Department career."  In a written statement, a Justice Department spokesperson dismissed Adams' claims as a "good faith disagreement."   Adams notes that, at a meeting with one of the Division's senior deputies to discuss dropping the charges, the former Voting Section chief Christopher Coates became so angry that his supervisors had refused to even review staff memos on the facts supporting prosecution, that he threw them at the deputy.  The department subsequently removed all of Mr. Coates' responsibilities and sent him to South Carolina.