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You’re just not reading thoroughly. The only people who are straight out of law school at the DOJ (during any administration) are those who are hired through the Honors program. Every administration gets its chance to hire people thorough the Honors program, so every administration hires people straight out of law school.

The problems for the Bush administration were related to both Honors and lateral hires. They were passing up applicants with civil rights experience for those who lacked civil rights experience, because the latter were viewed as more politically conservative.