Thomas E. Perez, 51, has led the Department of Justice’s Civil Right
The nomination of Tom Perez to lead the Labor Department is a reward by Obama for supporting the administration’s two tiered justice system.
From FoxNews in 2010:
J. Christian Adams, now an attorney in Virginia and a blogger for Pajamas Media, told Fox News in an exclusive interview that aired Wednesday that Assistant Attorney General Thomas Perez provided false testimony in May to the United States Commission on Civil Rights, which is investigating the department’s decision to drop charges against three members of the radical group in a case that the government won.
How will the Senate react to this nomination? Get ready for another capitulation.
David DeGerolamo
Obama to nominate embattled Tom Perez for Labor secretary
President Obama on Monday will nominate Tom Perez to be the next Labor Department secretary, a White House official confirmed late Sunday — setting up yet another contentious confirmation battle in the Senate.
Mr. Obama’s pick comes less than a week after a scathing audit of the Justice Department’s Civil Rights Division, which Mr. Perez runs as an assistant attorney general. The department’s inspector general said the Civil Rights division had become riven with factions, and questioned whether Mr. Perez was completely truthful in information he gave about the decision to dismiss a high-profile voter intimidation case involving the New Black Panther Party in Philadelphia.
