Civil and Human Rights Coalition: OIG Report Affirms Improvements to Voting Section under Leadership of Assistant Attorney General Tom Perez

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WASHINGTON, DC – Nancy Zirkin, executive vice president of The Leadership Conference on Civil and Human Rights, issued the following statement in response to a report by the Office of the Inspector General reviewing the operations of the Voting Section of the Department of Justice’s Civil Rights Division.  The report examines the operations of the Voting Section from the Bush and Obama administrations:

“Today’s report shows what’s clear to anyone following the actions of the Department of Justice in recent years: that Assistant Attorney General Tom Perez has restored integrity to the Civil Rights Division and its Voting Section. 

Under Perez’s leadership, the Civil Rights Division has put an end to politicized hiring practices and enforcement decisions and increased its commitment to upholding the civil rights of all Americans.

The Department has stepped up its enforcement of key civil rights laws on voting, disability access, and educational equity, among other priority areas. During Perez’s tenure, the Civil Rights Division also settled the three largest fair-lending cases in the history of the Fair Housing Act; as a result, it recovered more money for victims of housing discrimination in 2012 than in the previous 23 years combined.

Those who oppose the work of the Civil Rights Division have grasped at every possible straw to discredit this work, not because they want the Division to do better, but because they want to stop it from pursuing justice for all Americans.   

The Leadership Conference commends the work of the Civil Rights Division under Tom Perez and is proud that these accomplishments could be lifted up in today’s report.”

Nancy Zirkin is executive vice president of The Leadership Conference on Civil and Human Rights, a coalition charged by its diverse membership of more than 200 national organizations to promote and protect the rights of all persons in the United States. The Leadership Conference works toward an America as good as its ideals. For more information on The Leadership Conference and its 200-plus member organizations, visit www.civilrights.org.

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