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CIVIL RIGHTS ENFORCEMENT UNDER THE OBAMA ADMINISTRATION

By immigrationprof

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 Coffee House TV has an informative interview by Professor Angela Davis (American) of Tom Perez, the newly confirmed Assistant Attorney General for Civil Rights in the U.S. Department of Justice.  Perez inherits a Division that was highly politicized under the Bush Administration. Perez is talking to offices throughout the agency to listen to career prosecutors and to enforce all laws, not just the ones that a particular administration favors ideologically. The focuses of the Division under his leadership will the 2010 Census, reapportionmentand ensuring the enforcement of Voting Rights Act, holding predatory lenders accountable, and protecting victims of hate crimes.

KJ