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By Quin Hillyer
March 12, 2013
Panther-case scofflaw merits no cabinet post.
If President Obama thinks he can get away with appointing an obvious prevaricator to be Secretary of Labor and a radical, race-baiting one at that he has lost all touch with reality. Even a group as confused and fractious as the caucus of Senate Republicans is sure to find the collective backbone to block the (expected) appointment of Thomas Perez.
As I described in detail last August, Perez is one of the most loathsome figures in the thoroughly loathsome political ranks of Obamas Justice Department.
He has led the administrations racial scaremongering against voter ID laws, but got smacked down hard by the U.S. District Court for the D.C. Circuit, so that elections in South Carolina this week will go ahead with the law in effect. (This wasnt a partisan decision: The unanimous three-judge panel included Clinton appointee Colleen Kollar-Kotelly.)
Indeed, Perez doesnt even seem to be a very good lawyer at all: His positions also have been rebuked by courts in Arkansas (about the Civil Rights for Institutionalized Persons Act), again in the D.C. District Court, in New York on an education case (U.S. v. Brennan), in a Florida abortion case where Perez team was abusively prosecuting peaceful protesters, and most particularly in a major Perez loss in Florida when trying to force the state not to remove non-citizens from its voter rolls.
Perez has overseen most of the unprecedentedly naked politicization of DoJs Civil Rights Division, as detailed in an exhaustive series of reports at PJ Media. In short, of 113 career (meaning supposedly apolitical) civil-service hires for the Civil Rights Division under Obama and (mostly) Perez, every one of those 113 were demonstrably liberal activists. (The New York Times effectively confirmed this report:..
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The American Spectator : Thomas Perez Should Be Blocked
March 12, 2013
Panther-case scofflaw merits no cabinet post.
If President Obama thinks he can get away with appointing an obvious prevaricator to be Secretary of Labor and a radical, race-baiting one at that he has lost all touch with reality. Even a group as confused and fractious as the caucus of Senate Republicans is sure to find the collective backbone to block the (expected) appointment of Thomas Perez.
As I described in detail last August, Perez is one of the most loathsome figures in the thoroughly loathsome political ranks of Obamas Justice Department.
He has led the administrations racial scaremongering against voter ID laws, but got smacked down hard by the U.S. District Court for the D.C. Circuit, so that elections in South Carolina this week will go ahead with the law in effect. (This wasnt a partisan decision: The unanimous three-judge panel included Clinton appointee Colleen Kollar-Kotelly.)
Indeed, Perez doesnt even seem to be a very good lawyer at all: His positions also have been rebuked by courts in Arkansas (about the Civil Rights for Institutionalized Persons Act), again in the D.C. District Court, in New York on an education case (U.S. v. Brennan), in a Florida abortion case where Perez team was abusively prosecuting peaceful protesters, and most particularly in a major Perez loss in Florida when trying to force the state not to remove non-citizens from its voter rolls.
Perez has overseen most of the unprecedentedly naked politicization of DoJs Civil Rights Division, as detailed in an exhaustive series of reports at PJ Media. In short, of 113 career (meaning supposedly apolitical) civil-service hires for the Civil Rights Division under Obama and (mostly) Perez, every one of those 113 were demonstrably liberal activists. (The New York Times effectively confirmed this report:..
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The American Spectator : Thomas Perez Should Be Blocked
