Every Single One: The Politicized Hiring of Eric Holder’s Employment Section
For the last two weeks, PJMedia has been publishing a series of articles on the radical attorneys who have been hired as career civil servants in the Justice Department’s Civil Rights Division since President Obama took office. The reports reveal an unprecedented effort by Attorney General Eric Holder and his Civil Rights Division political leadership to stack the Division from top to bottom with a cadre of hard core, left-wing partisans. The ideological litmus test being employed is undeniable: conservatives and even apolitical lawyers need not apply. Only fervent liberals are welcome. And the proof is in the resumes — every single new attorney in the Division fits that description.
Today we turn to the Employment Litigation Section. This is the fifth section to be covered in PJM’s series. Previous pieces focused on the Voting Section, the Office of Special Counsel for Immigration-Related Unfair Employment Practices, the Special Litigation Section, and the Education Section.
The Employment Section is primarily responsible for enforcing the anti-discrimination provisions applicable to state and local governments under Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964. And Assistant Attorney General Thomas Perez has a downright disturbing agenda for the Section. Speaking to the liberal American Constitution Society, he promised that his Division would pursue “disparate impact” litigation — where no proof of actual discrimination is required but mere disproportionate workforce representation — with vigor rarely before seen. He wasn’t kidding. Indeed, the Division’s aggressive efforts to defend and expand the use of racial preferences in public sector hiring, promotions, and contracting ought to offend all Americans who believe in the promise of a just and colorblind society. Although politically correct terms like goals” and “timetables” are de rigueur, there is no hiding what is really being advocated here: racial quotas.
Meanwhile, the Section’s enforcement of the laws against religious discrimination seems focused almost obsessively on the protection of Muslims to the exclusion of almost every other group. Some of the enforcement actions undertaken are so far outside the requirements of federal law that one might be excused for thinking that the Koran is as much a part of the Section’s statutory toolbox as the U.S. Code. With the new crop of attorneys that have come on board, however, it is not difficult to see how this radicalized atmosphere has so thoroughly enveloped the Section.
Fifteen new career attorneys have been hired into the Section since Holder took the reins at DOJ. Every single one of these individuals is an unequivocal liberal. Many, moreover, have extraordinarily partisan backgrounds. In light of all this, the fact that the Bush Civil Rights Division — which hired career attorneys from all across the political spectrum — received such grief from the media and DOJ’s internal watchdogs is almost laughable in its absurdity.
But once again, don’t just take my word for it. Let the resumes speak for themselves:
Raheemah Abdulaleem: Ms. Abdulaleem is a sizable Democratic contributor, having given more than $1,400 to Barack Obama’s 2008 presidential campaign. While working at a large law firm, she represented terrorists detained at Guantanamo Bay on a pro bono basis. That is not surprising given her role on the Board of Directors of an organization called “Karamah — Muslim Women Lawyers for Human Rights.”
She also previously served as pro bono staff counsel for the National Commission on the Voting Rights Act, which was established by the Lawyers’ Committee for Civil Rights Under Law and other left-wing civil rights organizations to gather anecdotal evidence in support of the reauthorization of constitutionally dubious provisions of the Voting Rights Act. And she was a student attorney at the Harvard Legal Aid Bureau.
Ms. Abdulaleem has not abandoned her activist ways since arriving in the Employment Section. In fact, she was one of the Section’s senior lawyers who recently commenced the lawsuit against the Berkeley (Ill.) School District on behalf of a Muslim first-year teacher whose request to take a 3-week hajj to Mecca in the middle of end-of-semester course reviews and final exams was denied. As I previously wrote, the lawsuit is entirely devoid of legal merit and appears to have been filed as nothing more than a sop to the Muslim groups that the Obama administration has actively courted. One can only imagine what kind of lawsuit she will dream up next.
Woody Anglade: Mr. Anglade joins the Section from the EEOC, where he worked as a senior trial attorney litigating cases against private employers under federal civil rights statutes. Previously, he served as chief of staff to Democratic Congressman Rob Andrews of New Jersey, to whom he continues to make political contributions. He also worked as the Democratic counsel on the House Education and Workforce Committee’s Employer-Employee Relations Subcommittee, where he advised the 22 Democrats serving on the subcommittee.
Rachel Smith-Anglade: Ms. Smith-Anglade is the wife of new Section attorney Woody Anglade. The two worked together at the EEOC before coming to the Civil Rights Division. Although the Division conspicuously redacted parts of her resume, her political leanings are hardly in doubt. Indeed, her Facebook page proudly lists First Lady Michelle Obama and Democratic Congressman Rob Andrews as leading interests and proclaims that she will be supporting Barack Obama in 2012.
While the mischief making and the ideological pandering is overwhelmingly clear at Obama’s DOJ, none of it is surprising.What would be surprising is if it were not going on. Obama behaves like a King-let, and his appointees are his loyal subjects.Purging them from power will be one of the main challenges of a GOP victory.
Be that as it may,Israel’s bastion of left wing mischief makers rivals-even surpasses-those at DOJ.Not only is the prosecutor’s office stacked with left wing resumes, but our Court system, all the way up to the Supreme Court, is a cesspool of like-minded peers.Our legal foxes actually choose their own from within their fiefdom, guaranteeing a predictable left wing, pro Arab outcome.
It is enough to make a sane person go wild.
Instead of working for equal justice, which is blind, the leftists work for social justice, which is neither social nor just. Let’s pray that we did not allow this horror to go on so long that it cannot be overturned. Is there any sane country left on this earth?
The way to get rid of them is thru defunding?
Both Adina Kutnicki and Barbaras write with the assumption that Zero will be history in the next election. Although that hope is full of common sense and my dreams as well, DO NOT forget the legions of those who have bought into the redistribution concept as a lifestyle. Do not forget the fact that for the Dims, this is a crusade. For most of “us” it is secondary to our real life. NEVER, Never underestimate your foe.
The article keeps refering to these people as career lawyers. Can’t the next AG simply fire and replace them when we get rid of Obama in the next election. They do serve at thye pleasure of the president no?
No. That’s the problem. These individuals were hired as career civil servants with all the attendant statutory protections. That’s what makes Holder’s conduct so egregious here. Sure, there is the hypocrisy in all this. But the real problem is that these left-wing radicals (now protected bureaucrats) will be advancing their agenda for decades to come, and it will be almost impossible to fire them. This administration clearly recognizes what it is doing and it is seeking to establish a long-term legacy in the personnel ranks of the Justice Department.
Alan – There may be one way to undo this. If that section of DOJ is abolished, the attorneys in it can be riffed, but doing so would take a great deal of intestinal fortitude.
Even though the attorneys are hired as civil servants, their positions could still be unfunded through the budget process. As civil servants their only reprieve would be to roll back onto a position with less seniority, being that most are new hires that would not likely happen.
The real problem is how much damage can they produce until Obama leaves office in 2012.
Is there no way to start the process of changing the law for “civil” servants? Permanent employment seems to be against any sort of rational sense.
No merit system will protect them if they’re given an order and fail or refuse to follow it. It is a myth that you cannot fire a public employee but it is absolutely true that supervisors and managers are either co-conspirators with wrong-doing employees or are afraid to discipline or dismiss them.
No Republican will ever be able to successfully govern unless s/he is willing to fire every living soul in that government that s/he has an arguable legal right to fire the second his/her hand comes off The Bible. The federal bureaucracy, and most states as well, is simply a vipers nest of Democrat/leftist activists and sympathizers all the way from clerk and janitor on up. Unfortunately, Republicans usually just put a thin veneer of appointees in and then wonder why they spend their term being leaked, thwarted, and sabotaged. Fire EVERY polical appointee and if you can’t find a loyal, competent Republican leave the position vacant. The only person who’ll miss the fired appointee is the reporter(s) who are used to getting his/her leaks and the lobbyist(s) who are used to being able to “rely” on him/her.
Now that the evidence is firmly in hand, I think it would be a great litmus test of our fourth estate to see who makes a stink about it.
This happened in the previous administration. Let’s see what it looks like from the other side.
This series of articles reveals what the popular media denies which is that Obama is far to the left. The power of the executive lies in the fact that it is charged with implementing the laws as opposed to the power of the legislative branch that writes the laws.
The devil is in the details and as all students of the history of the Soviet Union know, Stalin’s power stemmed from his control over the bureaucracy. Obama can sound moderate and make compromises on legislation where he has very little room for choice, but in the implementation of laws through the various cabinet departments, he can radically change how America does business.
The PJ media’s articles outline the radicalization in the department of justice. One can assume that a parallel radicalization is likely taking place in the department of energy, the department of education, etc.
Obama is a very shrewd politician. He understands where he does and does not have power and he is very clever about leveraging that power. Stanley Kurtz’s book “Radical in Chief” is a very detailed history of the left wing milieu in which Obama’s ideas were developed. Having been a part of that environment for many years I can attest that Kurtz is very objective in describing it. It defies reason to think that Obama could have been involved with the groups and individuals he worked with for so many years and actually be opposed to the left wing orientation of those with whom he associated.
What Obama understands is that by installing radicals throughout the federal bureaucracy, he can achieve through regulation and implementation of the law, the radical agenda that he could never achieve through the electoral and legislative process.
It remains to be seen whether the Republican candidates can deal with the issues raised by the articles. So far I haven’t seen any of the main stream media outlets other than Fox go near any of this stuff. Hopefully, the alternative media will push the Republican candidates to discuss it.
‘Trevor Blake’ – Reading this pansy’s background/dossier, he’s got to be as ‘intimidating looking’ as Harry and/or Rory Reid!
In all seriousness, these are egregious acts of the highest form. To occur in the DoJ, in the U.S.A. – downright disgusting.
When is Eric ‘my people’ Holder going to be found accountable for this B S?
I know, he’s the AG, he’s Black and a government employee. And he didn’t get ANY flack during his major *uckups in the Clinton years.
The guy’s as racist, counterproductive to our country thought possible.
“In all seriousness” you’re a hate-filled dolt.
the hate filled dolt is looking back at you in the mirror. idiot.
Hmph. You opened an account with the specific username to defend the Reid’s (wow) ‘manhood’ (it’s there.. somewhere) and respond to my word choice?
If from NV, which held the highest unemployment #’s and their housing marketed plummeted years prior to 2008, what’s the family Reid done for you?
I’m sure if ol’ Harry puts his mind to it, NV’s essential ‘Cowboy Poetry’ will be on the the NV taxpayer’s yet again.
Well of course they’re all political appointments from the left by a president from the left; what did you expect? A representative cross sample of America or the faculty from San Francisco’s Hastings College of the law? I presume the Department of Energy is now run by members of the Sierra Club and NASA is now staffed by members of the Union of Concerned Scientists.
More on Employment: It’s Not Easy Being White Today
In 1963, Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. delivered his justly-famous “I Have a Dream Speech” from the steps of the Lincoln Memorial in which he spoke the inspirational words, “I have a dream that my four little children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin but by the content of their character.”
Widely described as a defining moment in the Civil Rights movement, almost half a century later, America’s first (semi-) black president has re-defined that moment and has made a mockery of King’s speech and those words in the process.
Barack Hussein Obama capped off two and a half years of racially-applied justice, demonstrably black favoritism, and expressions of anti-white sentiments by issuing an executive order convolutely entitled, “Establishing a Coordinated Government-wide Initiative to Promote Diversity and Inclusion in the Federal Workforce.”
The stated purpose of the order is “to promote the federal workplace as a model of equal opportunity, diversity and inclusion.”
As Kermit the Frog is wont to moan, “It’s not easy being green.” It’s also not easy being white in Barack Hussein Obama’s America. The Washington Times clarified the White House directive in an editorial: “Whites need not apply” when it comes to employment with the nation’s largest employer. (http://bit.ly/qzYpGM)
The Times elaborated by pointing out that the ”diversity the government is seeking is not diversity of ideas, outlooks or work experiences. In contemporary political parlance, ‘diversity’ refers primarily to the color of one’s skin and not the content of one’s character” as evidenced by details in the executive order. It incorporates such language as, the federal government “must create a culture that encourages collaboration, flexibility and fairness to enable individuals to participate to their full potential.”
However, in a bald-faced effort to tilt the playing field, “the government will intensify programs that discriminate against white Americans by extending special privileges to everyone else.” Laughably, ”The order also says that ‘attaining a diverse, qualified workforce is one of the cornerstones of the merit-based civil service,’ ” while abandoning even the semblance of a fair meritocracy.
The executive order was issued in absentia by the president; he was busily conducting the nation’s business from afar in Martha’s Vineyard where he could escape some of the reaction and political brickbats. Nevertheless, it effectively negates the import and spirit of King’s 1963 speech as well as make the feds the nation’s prime agency of discrimination.
Our federal government–virtually the only employer hiring in D.C.–will now hire exclusively on the bases of “diversity and inclusion,” code for skin color, a factor King felt abhorrent. By presidential decree, their character content and qualifications be damned.
The government initiative is all the more startling, and ironic, in that it was announced during the same week a black congressional Democrat who holds office primarily because she is black went on an unholy rant against her (semi-) black, Democrat president. . .
(Read more at http://www.genelalor.com/blog1/?p=5257)
FEDs Using Mobile X-Ray Vans To Do Drive-By Scannings
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“Arbitrary power is most easily established on the ruins of liberty abused to licentiousness.”
George Washington
We need to broom the whole federal government and start over.
I am unconcerned about the radical hires that the Obama Socialists have added to the payroll.
Once the conservatives get in office, all they need do is transfer them to a department in charge of litigating dog doo violations in DC.
There is nothing better than a lateral promotion.
Basic Peter Principle.
Very good point. Obama probably did this to the Bush holdovers like W. Scott Simpson (who had authored several briefs defending DOMA).
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Glanda of the north has nailed it….more like Peter Out Priciple..
I hope president Perry purges the bureaucracies of all of the deeply embedded Leftist moles that have infested all of them. They are hard at work undermining our republic.
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