Last week, HUD Associate General Counsel Dane Narode revealed that the Minnesota U.S. Attorney's Office composed a Powerpoint presentation and, together with Justice's Civil Division, presented the merits of the Newell case to HUD before Mr. Perez got involved.
Some Republicans remain wary of Perez's aggressive enforcement as head of the Justice Department's Civil Rights Division.
At issue is whether Perez -- who heads the Justice Department's Civil Rights Division -- improperly intervened with St.
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Perez, 51, has led the Justice Department's Civil Rights Division since 2009 and previously served as Maryland's labor secretary.
He'd earlier spent 12 years as an attorney in the Justice Department's civil rights division, rising to become deputy assistant attorney general during the 1990s.
Perez, now the U.S. assistant attorney general heading the Justice Department's civil rights division, will be nominated to be the next secretary of the U.S. Department of Labor, a Democratic source said.
During the Reagan administration, Mr. Cooper joined the Justice Department's Civil Rights Division and the Office of Legal Counsel, where he built a reputation as a legal "originalist, " who staunchly defends the letter of the law.
And on Wednesday, the Justice Department announced that its civil rights division has opened a criminal investigation.
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The Civil Rights Division of the U.S. Department of Justice is committed to protecting the civil rights of all individuals.
She has also served as a member of the National Commission on Terrorism, a legal advisor to U.S. Attorney General Janet Reno, and a trial attorney and counselor in the Civil Rights Division at the Justice Department.
Perez is the Assistant Attorney General for the Civil Rights Division at the U.S. Department of Justice.
Despite the heinous nature of the crime, the state court imposed lenient sentences, so the Civil Rights Division of the U.S. Department of Justice charged the assailants under the federal hate crimes law on the books at the time.
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On November 30, Mr. West, the Civil Division chief, emailed Mr. Perez and informed him that HUD had formally recommended that Justice join the Newell lawsuit.
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