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"A confirmation fight for a challenging job: Perez would face issues of civil rights, Justice morale."

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"A confirmation fight for a challenging job: Perez would face issues of civil rights, Justice morale." The Baltimore Sun today contains an article that begins, "In the annals of the capital's acid partisanship, their names are boldfaced: candidates for America's highest civil rights post who never got confirmed. During the last Democratic administration, conservatives succeeded in blocking Senate approval of Lani Guinier and Bill Lann Lee to head the civil rights division at the Justice Department. Now, they're gearing up to put Thomas E. Perez, a Maryland lawyer selected for the job by President Barack Obama, through the grinder. Senate sources predict that the state's labor secretary will be confirmed for the federal post, but history suggests that it won't be without a fight."

Full post as published by How Appealing on March 30, 2009 (boomark / email).

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