President Barack Obama is reportedly ready to nominate Justice Department Assistant Attorney General Thomas Perez to become the next Secretary of the Department of Labor. Issues from Perez’s involvement with DOJ’s decision to dismiss the Bush administration’s case against three New Black Panther Party
(AP) AP source: Obama poised to pick Perez for LaborBy JIM KUHNHENN and SAM HANANELAssociated PressWASHINGTONPresident Barack Obama is close to naming Thomas Perez, a civil rights official in the Justice Department, as his choice to head the Department of
The Organization of Islamic Cooperation (OIC) erased the name of a U.S. official attending a Monday conference in Saudi Arabia on banning “defamation of Islam” after her presence was widely reported by conservative media. An initial post on the OIC
On Wednesday at the UN General Assembly, the Organization of Islamic Cooperation (OIC) will seek to criminalize free speech and institute international blasphemy laws. The Organization of the Islamic Conference is a 56-state group (56 sovereign states and the Palestinian
Congressman Trent Franks (AZ-02) questioned Assistant Attorney General for the Civil Rights Division of the United States Department of Justice, Thomas Perez, over whether the Department would commit to not adopting a policy of criminalizing speech that is critical of
The US Department of Justice announced Monday it will sue Florida to stop the state from purging ineligible voters from its voter rolls. The DOJ statement came after Florida filed suit against the Department of Homeland Security for failing to
Before the electronic ink was dry Talking Points Memo Muckraker‘s Ryan J. Reilly pounced. Reilly’s hit piece is factually wrong and misleading–and that’s just the first few paragraphs! It was one of the few — if not the only —
The untold story of the Obama Administration’s widely reported, $335 million discrimination settlement with Countrywide Financial Corporation is that, under a secret Justice Department program, a chunk of the money won’t go to the “victims” but rather leftist groups not
One of the most popular attractions in Washington, D.C. is a building that graces Pennsylvania Avenue with an exterior engraved with the First Amendment to the Constitution and its guarantee of, among other liberties, freedom of speech. Secretary of State
Judicial Watch earned a victory in court on August 4 in its pursuit of documents related to the Obama administration’s Black Panther scandal. (This gets a bit technical, so hang with me.) In short, a federal court rejected a claim
What does the US Department of Justice have in common with the radical Muslim Brotherhood? It turns out a close associate of our Assistant Attorney General Thomas Perez will soon be advising this fundamentalist group on how to takeover and
The Obama Department of Justice (DOJ) cannot shake the New Black Panther Party scandal. Every week new revelations emerge about the racism and political favoritism that are corrupting our nation’s top law enforcement agency. Last week, Judicial Watch released to
Obama administration officials repeatedly denied that politics had anything to do with its Justice Department’s (DOJ) decision to abandon its lawsuit against the Black Panthers, a “civil rights” group that brandished weapons, blocked a polling station and hurled racial insults
The man whose name is at the top of the federal lawsuit against Joe Arpaio and the Maricopa County Sheriff’s Office is that of Assistant Attorney General Thomas E. Perez. This is the same man whose testimony in front of
A situation involving voter intimidation caught on tape has now exploded, as a Justice Department lawyer resigns to be able to tell the truth to the American people that the Obama-Holder Justice Department is allowing voting-rights violations to go unpunished
The people of Mississippi have not been angels. The history of the Magnolia State and segregation invites the kind of scrutiny and criticism that has recently been visited upon the state. Media reports that the Walthall County School District has
