Key Obama Nominee Headed for Cloture Vote

By David Weigel 10/5/09 6:26 PM

I’m hearing that Thomas J. Perez, the nominee to run the Civil Rights Division of the Department of Justice, may get a cloture vote tomorrow. Perez has been held up for months over Republican concerns about his civil rights stances — specifically his criticism of the Minutemen Civil Defense Corps — and over the DOJ’s dropped investigation of the New Black Panther Party.

UPDATE: Confirmed, it will be a 12:15 vote.

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