“Holder Faces New Questions About Racial Bias, Credibility After IG Report & Documents Released.”

 Hot Air.  Ooops.

“The Justice Department better hope that Justice Scalia (or his clerks) don’t catch wind of the IG report before Shelby v. Holder is decided. If they do, they’ll find a particularly interesting discussion regarding, what Justice Scalia called, “racial entitlements” in Section 5 of the Voting Rights Act.”  PJ Media.

Matt Purple: “Among his targets were an Oklahoma sheriff’s office that was assigning pregnant female corrections officers to desk duty, a 16-unit apartment building that was advertising a 21-and-over age policy, and universities using Kindle e-readers which supposedly discriminate against the blind. That last one deserves particular scorn (don’t paperbacks do the same thing?), but that’s Perez for you. He’d sue the English language if he could.

Perez’s nomination shows President Obama wants to bring his brand of victimological bullying to the DOL’s fight for workplace rules and labor unions.”

This is at the IG Report at 123-124.

“The OIG also uncovered e-mails in which current and former Voting Section attorneys criticized and mocked Coates’s work on the Noxubee case. For instance, in an e-mail sent to four former Voting Section attorneys after the Noxubee complaint had been filed but before the trial began, Sydney referred to Coates as a “klansman.” Likewise, a non-attorney employee in the Voting Section wrote in an e-mail to a Section attorney: “[P]ersonally i think that the architects of the [Voting Rights Act] and those who fought and died for it are rolling over in their graves with that perversion of the act … im sorry, but [White people] are NOT covered for a reason.” During the course of the Noxubee trial, a group of current and former Section attorneys exchanged e-mails that celebrated perceived setbacks for the Department’s case and appeared to express hope that Coates and the Department would lose the Noxubee trial.”


I wonder if the “scholars” will cover this disgusting comment by current DOJ attorney’s tasked with enforcing the law. I wonder if the attorneys have reconsider their position.  I know this comment didn’t come up in Tom Perez’s briefing at the Voting Section today.  His omission was a perversion.

 “Left-leaning legal commentators such as Linda Greenhouse are hyperventilating after last week’s oral argument on Section 5 of the Voting Rights Amendment, which was unfavorable for the Section’s proponents.”

Politico: “A scathing new report exposing bitter divisions and racial hostility at the Justice Department’s Civil Rights Division is certain to complicate the confirmation process for Tom Perez, who currently heads the unit and is expected to be President Barack Obama’s pick as the next Secretary of Labor.

The 258-page internal watchdog report out Tuesday resurrects questions about the handling of the controversial New Black Panther Party prosecution and faults Perez for giving misleading public testimony in 2010 when he said political appointees were not involved in decisions about the case. He stands by the accuracy of his statement.”

 Link.

“Does the leader of a critical division of the Justice Department that had to be warned to respect these basic principles of fairness and good governance warrant promotion to secretary of labor? I don’t think so, but since we have Hagel there are apparently no standards for confirmation.”

Quin has been digesting the DOJ Inspector General report on the Voting Section and Civil Rights Division and he has numerous reports here, here (on Tom Perez “misleading” statements under oath, here, and here.

“Below is a section of the IG report on the Civil Rights Division of the Justice Department, amply confirming longstanding allegations by Christian Adams, Chris Coates, Hans von Spakovsky, and others that the division is full of people who are openly hostile to the very notion that civil rights laws merit race-neutral enforcement. The section is chilling.”

He then goes on to quote the section of the report dealing with treatment of members of the Noxubee team, something I know about firsthand.

Will be on the Dallas blowtorch KSKY at 7:45 tonight to talk about the outrageous and disturbing contents in the DOJ IG report about DOJ misconduct.