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Date: June 16, 2007 4:36:17 PM PDT
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Subject: One-Party System: Government by Bush-Loyalists Only, for
Bush-Loyalists Only ...
Complaint:
Schlozman Aimed to Replace
[All non-Right-Wing] Lawyers
with "Good Americans"
By Paul Kiel - June 15, 2007, 12:28 PM
http://www.tpmmuckraker.com/archives/003436.php
During a hearing before the Senate Judiciary Committee last week,
Bradley Schlozman, the controversial former senior political
appointee in the Civil Rights Division, was battered with questions
about his efforts to politicize the division.
A number of those questions from senators centered on Schlozman's
efforts to purge the appellate section of the Civil Rights Division
-- the small, but important section that handles civil rights cases
in the court of appeals. What were they getting at? An anonymous
complaint against Schlozman sent to the Justice Department's
inspector general in December of 2005 spelled out the allegations.
The complaint, obtained by TPMmuckraker, was filed by a former
Department lawyer. You can read it here.
"Bradley J. Schlozman is systematically attempting to purge all
Civil Rights appellate attorneys hired under Democratic
administrations," the lawyer wrote, saying that he appeared to be
"targeting minority women lawyers" in the section and was replacing
them with "white, invariably Christian men." The lawyer also
alleged that "Schlozman told one recently hired attorney that it
was his intention to drive these attorneys out of the Appellate
Section so that he could replace them with 'good Americans.'"
The anonymous complaint named three female, minority lawyers whom
Schlozman had transferred out of the appellate section (of African-
American, Jewish, and Chinese ethnicity, respectively) for no
apparent reason. And in a letter to the Senate Judiciary Committee
earlier this week in response to questions from senators, the
Justice Department confirmed that all three had been transferred
out by Schlozman -- and then transferred back in after Schlozman
had left the Division.
Schlozman's boast about stuffing the appellate section with "good
Americans" would not have been out of character, as even he
admitted during questioning last week:
Sen. Chuck Schumer (D-NY): Did you ever boast to anyone that you
hired a certain number of Republicans or conservatives for any
division or section at the Justice Department?
Schlozman: I mean, I probably have made statements like that.
Despite such an admission, Schlozman insisted at the hearing that
he had never -- as former Department aide Monica Goodling had
admitted she had -- "crossed the line" and hired attorneys because
of their political affiliation.
It's unclear if the Department's inspector general ever pursued the
allegations from the December, 2005 letter at the time. But the
office certainly is now. In a letter to the judiciary committee
chairmen last month, Glenn Fine and Office of Professional
Responsibility counsel Marshall Jarrett announced that their joint
probe into the U.S. attorney firings had been expanded to include
hiring practices in the Civil Rights Division. Schlozman has been
accused of recruiting Republicans for career spots and then asking
them to scrub mentions of their GOP bona fides from their resumes.
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