DOJ sued for 'partisan' hiring practices

LA Times

The inspector general at the Justice Department has charged that rank partisan criteria tainted the hiring process for the attorney general's honors program and its summer internship program. Brilliant applicants sponsored by careerists at the agency were turned down in John Ashcroft's Justice Department because they worked for Massachusetts Sen. John Kerry's presidential campaign in 2004 or wrote an essay on the importance of legal diligence in the environmental movement or worked for a legal aid society...