Christopher Coates

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title: "Christopher Coates" type: doc version: 1 created: 2026-02-28 author: "Wikipedia contributors" status: active scope: public tags: ["united-states-department-of-justice-officials", "american-civil-liberties-union-people", "american-lawyers", "living-people", "year-of-birth-missing-(living-people)", "place-of-birth-missing-(living-people)"] description: "United States lawyer and government official" topic_path: "law" source: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christopher_Coates" license: "CC BY-SA 4.0" wikipedia_page_id: 0 wikipedia_revision_id: 0

::summary United States lawyer and government official ::

Christopher Coates is a U.S. Justice Department official and former ACLU lawyer. He stepped down as chief of the Justice Civil Rights Division Voting Section in December 2009 and transferred to the U.S. Attorney's office in South Carolina. He was involved in the New Black Panther Party voter intimidation case that was later dropped, and was not permitted by the department to testify before U.S. Civil Rights Commission Hearing investigating issues related to the case.

J. Christian Adams has said that Coates, who he worked with on a voter intimidation case involving the New Black Panther Party, was transferred after a confrontation with acting head of the Civil Rights Division, Steve Rosenbaum.

On September 24, 2010, Coates defied the DOJ and testified before the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights.

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1. [http://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/former-doj-trial-attorney-in-new-black-panther-party-voter-intimidation-case-to-testify-at-july-6-2010-us-civil-rights-commission-hearing-97012909.html Former DOJ attorney in NBPP voter intimidation case to testify on July 6, 2010 at US Commission on Civil Rights hearing], prnewswire.com; accessed April 14, 2014.
2. [http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2010/jun/25/inside-the-black-panther-case-anger-ignorance-and- J. Christian Adams account of NBPP voter intimidation], washingtontimes.com, June 25, 2010; accessed April 14, 2014.
3. Jerry Markon. (September 25, 2010). "Justice lawyer alleges bias at agency". Washington Post.
4. (September 25, 2010). "Bias led to 'gutting' of New Black Panthers case, Justice official says". The Washington Post.

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