“DOJ Follows Its ‘Conscience’ In Civil Rights Battles”

Must-listen Carrie Johnson interview with Tom Perez on NPR: “Over the past three years, the unit has brought record numbers of hate crimes cases, uncovered abuses in local police departments and challenged voting laws in Texas and South Carolina. ‘I wish discrimination were a thing of the past,’ says Thomas Perez, assistant attorney general for the Civil Rights Division. ‘I wish we were living in a post-racial America. I wish my phone were not ringing, but regrettably it’s ringing off the hook in the voting context; it’s ringing off the hook in the hate crimes context and in so many other contexts.'”

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