TPMmuckraker: DoJ Prevents Voting Section Chief from Testifying

By Paul Kiel - July 16, 2007, 5:20 PM

The House Judiciary Committee was set to hold a hearing on the Civil Rights Division's voting rights section tomorrow, but no more. That's because the Justice Department has refused to allow the chief of the section, John Tanner, to testify. The committee has postponed the hearing until the Department allows Tanner to appear.