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Cloture Vote For Tom Perez.
Sources on the Hill say that the Democrats will be pushing for a cloture vote for Thomas Perez, Obama's nominee to head the civil rights division of the Justice Department, at 12:15 tomorrow. Conservatives had blocked Perez' nomination based on the dismissal of a voting rights case involving the New Black Panther Party and Perez' association with a Maryland based immigrant rights' group, as I reported a few weeks ago.
-- A. Serwer
COMMENTS (3)
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Posted by: chocolate | October 6, 2009 1:32 AM
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Posted by: vivian | October 6, 2009 1:34 AM
“FROM PATERNALISM TO EMPOWERMENT: Why the DOJ Should Emphasize Anti-discrimination and First Amendment Enforcement in Protecting America’s Most Vulnerable People”
Summary: By the time related circumstances warrant federal intervention, historically protected people are often more than discrimination victims, having by then become advocates for personal vindication and broader reform. As envisioned by our U. S. Civil Rights Commission in 1965, “(p)rimary responsibility for correcting (their) problems . . . rests with the individual States” which fail given obstacles more insidious than unlawful discrimination. Anyone legitimately pressing beyond local officials to our federal government for relief, needs a DOJ committed to First Amendment as much if not more than anti-discrimination enforcement.
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Posted by: Zena Crenshaw Logal | October 6, 2009 1:50 PM