John Christian Adams (born 1968)[1][2] is an American attorney and conservative activist[3] formerly employed by the United States Department of Justice under the George W. Bush administration.
[10] Adams responded to the Bar by emphasizing that his complaint accused Rodham of illegally taking a contingent fee to represent the two clients appealing for a pardon.
Coates' testimony before the United States Civil Rights Commission supported Adams' allegations,[15] and the Commission's report that found "a cover-up of a possible racial double standard in law enforcement in the Civil Rights Division of the U.S. Department of Justice," and, detailing "a year of DOJ’s intransigence and baseless refusals to comply with our subpoenas," that "the Department of Justice is unquestionably hostile to any serious investigation of these allegations.
[19] Subsequently, Adams accused Assistant Attorney General Thomas Perez of lying under oath in investigative hearings before the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights.
[5] On July 6, 2010, Adams testified before the Commission on Civil Rights that the Justice Department's decision was driven by racial bias against white Americans.
[22] Adams serves as president of the non-profit Public Interest Legal Foundation (PILF), a group that advocates for stricter voter ID laws, and has without evidence asserted that there is an "alien invasion" at the voting booth.
[18] According to NBC News, the foundation has "spent years suing counties to force them to purge their rolls and he's published personal information online about thousands of registered voters he believes could have committed fraud.
[18] In 2021 Adams criticized the Electronic Registration Information Center on the radio and other outlets which had repercussions that led public opinion to shift with several state election officials later pulling out of the cooperative data sharing network and potentially diminishing voter roll accuracy.