Breitbart link: Perez waged war against voter photo identification laws. In South Carolina, he overruled career Voting Section lawyers who recommended that South Carolina Voter ID be “precleared” under the Voting Rights Act. Instead, Perez wanted to fight to stoke up President Obama’s base before the 2012 election and ordered that the law be blocked (a federal power currently challenged in the Supreme Court case of Shelby v. Holder). South Carolina eventually beat Perez in federal court, but not before the taxpayers of South Carolina were forced to spend $3,500,000 in legal fees. Senator Lindsey Graham (R-SC) has demanded the internal memo from the DOJ, but they won’t produce it. Perez should not be confirmed until it is produced.”
“President Obama has nominated Thomas E. Perez for Secretary of Labor. Perez is a radical progressive who is currently the Assistant Attorney General for Civil Rights in President Obama’s Justice Department. Perez has amassed a record demonstrating contempt for the rule of law, hostility toward the private sector and an aversion to telling the truth under oath. . . .