Report: Politics, Ideology Drove Hiring Decisions in Justice Department's Civil Rights Division
Legal Times
A report released Monday by the Justice Department's two watchdogs says the former head of the DOJ's Civil Rights Division routinely violated federal law and department policy by using political and ideological affiliations in hiring several career attorneys. Bradley Schlozman, the report says, actively recruited those he deemed "real Americans" -- members of the Federalist Society and others with conservative bona fides -- and in the process routinely overruled the judgments of his deputies on hiring issues.