On September 13, 2010, the Department of Justice's inspector general Glenn A. Fine announced he was opening a second investigation, focusing not on the New Black Panther case specifically but on the more general question of whether the Justice Department enforces voting rights laws "in a non-discriminatory manner",[26] as well as whether voting section employees have been harassed for investigating or prosecuting particular matters.[27] Smith and Wolf also expressed approval of this decision.[26]