Assistant Attorney General Tom Perez might be nominated to lead the Department of Labor, but the inner workings of the Department of Justice took center stage at his confirmation hearing April 18 on Capitol Hill.
Perez tangled with several Republicans on the Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor and Pensions, who had concerns about Perez’s involvement in a "secret deal" to settle a whistleblower case in Minnesota. They also questioned Perez about the department’s aggressiveness in challenging South Carolina’s voting rights law, and about the ethics of sending emails to reporters providing nonpublic information about case resolutions.
