Every Single One: The Politicized Hiring of Eric Holder’s Education Section
You’re missing the point. As a tax payer, I don’t want the Civil Rights Division to hire just any “general civil litigator” who is unfamiliar with the relevant law and legal issues and needs to “learn” to do her job. Can you or the authors of these articles name one person with 3-5 years of experience litigating civil rights cases who applied for a job in the Civil Rights Division in the last two years and did not get selected for the job … just one… conservative, or otherwise? The fact you seem to be overlooking is that experience in the relevant field makes a person qualified and, to put is in simple terms, not many conservatives choose to specialize affirmative civil rights litigation, and remember the Civil Rights Division was not established to do defensive litigation.
