Thomas Perez Confirmation To Lead DOJ Civil Rights Division Held Up For Six Months

The American Prospect :

For months, the Obama administration and Attorney General Eric Holder have been promising to restore the Justice Department's role in protecting minority rights. Key to that effort is having a leader for the Civil Rights Division, which is dedicated to preserving voting rights, fighting discriminatory lending practices, and protecting Americans from discrimination in housing and employment. But confirmation of the administration's nominee, Thomas Perez, has been held up in the Senate for six months.

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Comments

[rf-hawaii]

Six months?

[BabblingBrooks]

This whole story is nothing but a mess of unsubstantiated charges. When it comes to "protecting the powerful," the Obama administration is doing a much better job of that than the Bush admin.

Just depends on who you consider powerful, for that matter.

[GeneralDisarray]

I like turtles!

[fireW]

What a surprise. The party of NO no longer even pretends to have to do their job. Sadder still is the fact that they're well aware there's no price to be paid for such deliberate dereliction of duty.

[dumboldfarmer]

I think it is time that this administration told the Repubs to either shut up or we will start prosecuting for war crimes and other crimes against our country.

[fireW]

Said prosecutions should be undertaken whether the cons cry about it or not.

[rf-hawaii]

True. Still makes for a good threat.

[condew]

Is this yet another failure of Harry Reid, that even with 60 Democratic votes until recently, only about 1/3 of Obama's team has been confirmed by the Senate? Yes the constitution says advise and consent, but I hardly think this should allow the Republicans to keep this new administration unstaffed.

[Soulsurfer]

I agree. WTF is Reid doing in that position? Isn't there anyone with a spine in the Democratic Party anymore?

[Poorsarah]

If I recall correctly, weren't there 13 CZARS in the Bush regime? For some reason, I did not hear any complaints about czars from the GOP during th eight nightmarish years of Bushdom. The definition for this is GOP hypocrisy, again.

[dumboldfarmer]

There were 36 Czars in the GWB regime.

[rf-hawaii]

If the GOP won't allow Obama's team to be confirmed then what else is there than 'czars'?

[Rangergirl]

Plus there are a ton of opennings still to be filled after almost a whole year.

[Rangergirl]

Repubs are moronic...They have fought tooth and nail for every nominee Obama has had for opennings in the Administra­tion..Wond­er then why he hires people so they don't have to go thru the vetting process....Also they forget that Bush had more Czars than our President...

[tenndemo]

The repubes know that the heads of all the bush era hires at the DOJ from that non-accreditted religiuos University of I Don't Know will roll.

[bannorhill]

I'm sure the Republicans will take less time than the Democrats took for Miguel Estrada.

[Mark Twaine]

White men doing nothing for the people spring, summer and fall ...

[somsoc]

Sen. Jeff Sessions, a self admitted happy grandchild of a K K K grand dr@gon, a person whose use of rac!al slu rs and der ogatory and deme@ning language directed toward people of co lor kept him from, thankfully, being appointed to the federal bench. Is now in the position to manipulate the judiciary hearings and delay hearings so that he can thwart the revival of the Civil Rights Division of the DOJ that the GOP dismantled during the Bush cr!me years. What a great nation. Ha ng in there Thomas Perez, you are a very good man, an excellent choice for this post, and far superior to the amoeba known as Jeff k k k Sessions.

Read more at: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/09/17/thomas-perez-confirmation_n_289871.html

[somsoc]

Sen. Jeff Sessions, a self admitted happy grandchild of a K K K grand dragon, a person whose use of rac!al slurs and derogatory and demeaning language directed toward people of color kept him from, thankfully, being appointed to the federal bench. Is now in the position to manipulate the judiciary hearings and delay hearings so that he can thwart the revival of the Civil Rights Division of the DOJ that the GOP dismantled during the Bush cr!me years. What a great nation. Hang in there Thomas Perez, you are a very good man, an excellent choice for this post, and far superior to the amoeba known as Jeff k k k Sessions.

Read more at: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/09/17/thomas-perez-confirmation_n_289871.html

[lilma]

If the republicans can't stop throwing up smoke screems and get on with the health care reform, then maybe somebody would listen to this negative bunch of do nothing. Can anyone on this blog tell me one thing, just one thing, that the republicans have accomplish this year??????

Right nothing!!!!!!!!! The only things they accomplished so far, is to make the country divide, make the people who voted for Pres. Obama doubt his leadership, terrorize the senior on health care, make both house skittish to make a move on healthcare or any of President agenda, block confirmation on the President nominees then start crying about some czars, which have no meaning at all.