Bush DOJ Discriminated When Hiring Anti-Discrimination Lawyers

Not that we haven't known this before but a new internal DOJ investigation confirms it: Monica Goodling was acting on orders from above.

A former senior official at the Justice Department routinely hired Republicans, Federalist Society members and “R.T.A.’s” — “Right-Thinking Americans”— for what were supposed to be nonpolitical posts and gave them plum assignments on civil rights cases, an internal department report released Tuesday found.

The former official, Bradley Schlozman, who helped lead the Civil Rights Division for about three years beginning in 2003, also gave false statements to Congress when he denied factoring politics into his hiring decisions, the report from the inspector general and Office of Professional Responsibility at the Justice Department found. But last week federal prosecutors declined to bring criminal charges against Mr. Schlozman, who left the department in 2007 amid an uproar over accusations of widespread politicization.

In the Civil Rights Division, regarded as a cornerstone of the Justice Department since the days of Attorney General Robert F. Kennedy, the investigation found that political supervisors charged with enforcing federal bias laws had illegally discriminated against job applicants seen as too liberal. The report said Mr. Schlozman’s superiors had ignored warnings about his brash management style and his political agenda.

Of course they ignored the warning. They were being warned that he was going to do what they appointed him to do.

Comments

[eRobin]

I think it's rude of you to write about this. We should be looking forward. These people have suffered enough by being exposed in the mainstream media (which is all a bunch of liars).

Love,
Right Thinking American

[mick arran]

Dear Right Thinking American,

I did not mean to cause you undue stress. Do not concern yourself. The Bush DOJ is not - repeat NOT - going ahead with the prosecution. Apparently they agree with you that these poor people have been punished enough just by getting caught. I guess I should have mentioned that so you wouldn't worry but I kind of figured we could, you know, assume it.

Sincerely,
Wrong Thinking American