• A federal civil rights commission meeting devolved into chaos last week as Democrats went to great lengths to block a study on whether crime disproportionately impacts minorities — and, by implication, whether soft-on-crime policies create a civil rights issue by subjecting poor blacks to high crime rates. 
• The U.S. Commission on Civil Rights consists of eight commissioners, four liberals and four conservatives.
• But Republicans say Democrats “double-crossed” them by breaking a deal they had made to vote for the report. 

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