Politics guided Justice hiring
Justice Department officials violated civil-service law by using partisan litmus tests to recruit lawyers, the department’s inspector general said this week. A report by Inspector General Glenn Fine and the department’s ethics office concluded that senior department officials routinely rejected well-qualified entry-level applicants whose résumés suggested a liberal political orientation, in favor of recruits with conservative credentials. Federal law bars taking ideology into account when hiring career employees, though it’s permitted for political appointees.
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