\nJanuary 28, 2016<\/p>\n
Our View: Perdue\u2019s Betrayal<\/strong><\/p>\n On Monday, Jan. 18, Georgia\u2019s first-term U.S. senator, David Perdue, issued a brief statement honoring Martin Luther King Jr., whose \u201cactions to advance justice continue to inspire us all to do better.\u201d Two days later, Perdue stood in the way of justice and betrayed King\u2019s ideals.<\/p>\n Perdue scuttled <\/a>the U.S. District Court nomination of a fellow Republican, Dax Lopez, because of concerns about \u201chis longstanding participation in a controversial organization.\u201d\u00a0That controversial organization isn\u2019t the Communist Party or domestic terrorists ready to seize Fort McPherson, nor is Lopez tied to neo-Nazis or the Klan, neither of which would likely welcome the Jewish Latino from DeKalb County.<\/p>\n No, the dread organization is the Georgia Association of Latino Elected Officials. For Lopez, a Latino elected official as a state judge, being part of GALEO<\/a> is about as radical as Congressman John Lewis being a member of the NAACP.<\/p>\n In fact, the NAACP, with its responses to issues of particular concern to the black community, such as police shootings and Confederate memorials, could be seen as every bit as controversial as GALEO, whose offense is activism on behalf of Hispanic immigrants, even those here illegally.<\/a><\/p>\n Standing up for fellow Latinos puts GALEO on the wrong side of an increasingly rabid group of activists for whom absolutism on immigration \u2014 no illegals, no amnesty, no reform, no exceptions \u2014 is the political litmus test of our time.<\/p>\n That group has the ear of Perdue, who gave far less time to Lopez than to people such as D.A. King, a rhetorical warrior against \u201cthe vast, corporate-funded illegal alien lobby.\u201d To put King in perspective, he wants to oust Rep. Tom Price, one of the most conservative members of the House Republican leadership, for being too soft on immigration enforcement.<\/p>\n King threatened the political futures of Perdue and Sen. Johnny Isakson, who is running for re-election, if Lopez even got a hearing before the Senate Judiciary Committee.<\/p>\n By custom, the Senate does not consider judicial nominations without the go-ahead of the senators from the nominee\u2019s state. Isakson told King in a public forum that Lopez deserved a hearing. Perdue, whose cousin Sonny Perdue as governor first put Lopez on the bench in 2010, disagreed.<\/p>\n
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