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Defend America on Thursday, December 10, 2009 8:59:55 AM
Perez in Trouble
A DOJ lawyer smears his coworkers to cover up a politically motivated decision.
By Hans A. von Spakovsky
The
Justice Department’s assistant attorney general for civil rights,
Thomas Perez, testified before the House Judiciary Committee last week
in an oversight hearing. He was sharply questioned about the
department’s dismissal of the voter-intimidation lawsuit it had won by
default against the New
Black Panther Party
(NBPP). Rep. Steve King accused him of lying to the committee during a
heated exchange with Rep. Louie Gohmert (R., Texas) over the case.
Perez certainly misled the committee.
He said that the
decision to drop the case was made by two career attorneys with more
than 60 years of combined experience. From my work in the
Civil Rights
Division, I happen to know almost all of the attorneys who were
involved in this case — and if the key to the correct decision was
experience, Perez is in a lot of trouble. The lawyers who investigated
this case and recommended filing suit have many more years of
experience — particularly recent experience in voting cases — than the
two lawyers Perez is relying on.
Those two lawyers, Steve
Rosenbaum and Loretta King, are two of the worst political hacks to be
found in the career ranks of the Civil Rights Division (I have
previously written about King’s ambition to run for office in Maryland
on the Democratic ticket). But putting that aside, Rosenbaum hasn’t
worked on a voting case since he left the Voting Section in 1994. King
hasn’t worked on a voting case since she left the Voting Section in
1996.
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