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| 2011-09-26 |
| What's happened up until now, and what internal leaks say about what's coming. Hint: jobs may now be at stake. (This is the twelfth of a series of articles about the Justice Department's hiring practices since President Obama took office. ) If you haven't been following this, there are 11 links where he has introduced each of the new hires. It's scary just reading it. Following the Justice Department's long-delayed compliance with a Freedom of Information Act request, PJMedia recently published content from the resumes of each career attorney hired to the DOJ's Civil Rights Division under Attorney General Eric Holder. The articles were written by two former Civil Rights Division attorneys -- J. Christian Adams and Hans von Spakovsky -- and PJMedia Editor Richard Pollock. The Justice Department is forbidden by federal law from hiring employees based on political affiliation. Yet the resumes revealed the following ideological breakdown among the new hires: Leftist lawyers: 113 Moderate, non-ideological, or conservative lawyers: 0. That represents the basest headline for the series, the matter-of-fact evidence that should lead any reasonable observer to believe the DOJ has employed an illegal political litmus test during the interview process. But the "Every Single One" series has provided additional benefits: the results present the inherent flaw in leftism's perversion of the term "civil rights," while providing a real world example of the flawed belief actualized. Additionally, the "Every Single One" series presents ramifications that reach far beyond the individuals most directly affected by DOJ activity. We hope not to understate it: this perversion of "civil rights" is the beating heart of leftism itself. Only one definition of "civil rights" could ever logically exist: that of equal protection under the law, the law defined as the codified protection of an individual's life, liberty, and property. Yet Eric Holder, Loretta King, Thomas Perez, the 113 hires -- they claim that civil rights, and the Division established to enforce them, reside in racial, gender, disability, and even sexuality preferences presiding above the law, in the hands of an elite few trusted by an elite public class to establish some breed of "fair lawlessness." The flaw is obvious: when the law is not equally applied, a citizen's actions are no longer their own. |
| Posted by:Beavis |
| #4 The hiring was not 113-0 for any of the prohibited reasons; it was because only liberals were qualified by reason of civil rights law experience. Conservative would have by definition been on the anti civil rights side, and thus not qualified. |
| Posted by: Glenmore 2011-09-26 18:43 |
| #3 The flaw is obvious: when the law, hiring and employment, promotion, educational beneifts, school admissions, taxes, are not equally applied, a citizen's actions are no longer their own. Hope no one minds me adding a couple of other key areas. |
| Posted by: Besoeker 2011-09-26 17:41 |
| #2 and don't forget the media that dutifully regurgitated the leftist narrative. |
| Posted by: Bright Pebbles 2011-09-26 17:33 |
| #1 Just remember these are the same folks who generated faux outrage over the firing of numerous Attorney Generals during the Bush administration. It's OK to staff the DOJ with single minded hacks if its done by Donks. Remember - one set of rules for me and another set of rules for thee. |
| Posted by: Procopius2k 2011-09-26 15:38 |