• What’s coming up on Sunday Kos …
- A final ode to Cliff Huxtable: Burying the past in order to deal with the present, by Kelly Macias
- Right-wing ‘news’ sites distract from nightmare Trumpcare with scary fairy tales of freedom lost, by Ian Reifowitz
- The Democratic Party does not need a civil war, now or later, by Egberto Willies
- Hot enough for you? It’s likely to get worse. Much worse, by Sher Watts Spooner
- Senator Portman: 220,000 Ohioans with substance abuse coverage will lose it under repeal, by David Akadjian
- Step, Tap, Stomp: The power of dance rhythms, by Denise Oliver Velez
- The consequences of voting against your best interests, by Mark E Andersen
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At Daily Kos on this date in 2008—Bush Justice Department politicizes absolutely everything:
Two reports today confirm that under Bush the Justice Department has politicized everything it touches, even programs for the young.
Not that we should have needed any further proof of the obvious after AG Gonzales' deputy, Monica Goodling, confessed last May to illegally discriminating in hiring along partisan lines. But now it's official: DOJ hiring committees went to great lengths to exclude Democratic, liberal, and activist job applicants under both John Ashcroft and Alberto Gonzales. A new report (PDF) investigates Republican manipulation of the Honors and Interns programs, which together bring new lawyers into DOJ. Ashcroft restructured the programs in 2002 specifically to ensure that more conservatives and fewer liberals were hired. He removed career officials from the hiring committees and replaced them with highly partisan political appointees.
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