Only "good Americans" could work for Justice

Via TPM Muckraker comes a nice little taste of what the USA firings have revealed. The quote is from an anonymous complaint filed about Bradley Schlozman, a former US attorney in Missouri who was also an appointee in the Civil Rights division of the Justice Department:

"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.

You know, the Justice Department should really investigate this Schlozman fellow for civil rights violations. Oh, um, yeah, right.