Thomas Perez, President Obama’s Secretary of Labor nominee, has an egregious record of flouting the law and Congress, most recently in an email scandal that rivals that of former Environmental Protection Agency administrator Lisa Jackson, according to Quin Hillyer.

Perez illegally used private email for government business almost 1,200 times while serving as assistant attorney general of the Department of Justice’s Civil Rights Division, and has since ignored a congressional subpoena for the emails, according to Rep. Darrell Issa, R-Calif., as The Washington Examiner reported last week. He has also violated the federal records act at least 34 times, said Issa, who is chairman of the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee.