department and the wall street journal had a piece today that talked about how, quote, political muscle undermind the rule of law under mr. perez s civil rieghts division. in simple terms, what is the allegation that mr. perez did? one of the allegations is that he interfered and cost the american taxpayers 180 million dollars by getting a case dismissed where he didn t want to face the supreme court decision and gave up two very valid cases again, 180 million dollars of taxpayer money in st. paul. this was unprecedented. it had been set for additional this nominee has been expressed as not having been candid in his testimony. candid is it kind of one of the funny words in politics that means he didn t tell the whole truth. this is also somebody who refused to do his fundamental job which is to fully prosecute voter intimidation that fell under his watch. these are just some of the areas of concern that i think that senators have and they