Re: More evidence of the attempted right wing coup


"AnneCoultersAdamsApple" <annecoultersadamsapple@xxxxxxxxx> wrote in message news:1175320744.406936.96420@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx

During the Bush Administration, dramatic change has taken place.
Political
appointees made it quite clear that they did not wish to draw on the
expertise and
institutional knowledge of career attorneys. Instead, there appeared
to be a conscious
effort to remake the Division's career staff. Political appointees
often assumed an
attitude of hostility toward career staff, exhibited a general
distrust for recommendations
made by them, and were very reluctant to meet with them to discuss
their
recommendations. The impact of this treatment on staff morale resulted
in an alarming
exodus of career attorneys -- the longtime backbone of the Division
that had historically
maintained the institutional knowledge of how to enforce our civil
rights laws tracing
back to the passage of our modern civil rights statutes.
Compounding this problem was a major change in hiring procedures which
virtually eliminated any career staff input into the hiring of career
attorneys. This has led
to the perception and reality of new staff attorneys having little if
any experience in, or
commitment to, the enforcement of civil rights laws and, more
seriously, injecting
political factors into the hiring of career attorneys. The overall
damage caused by losing
a large body of the committed career staff and replacing it with
persons with little or no
interest or experience in civil rights enforcement has been severe and
will be difficult to
overcome.

http://judiciary.house.gov/media/pdfs/Rich070322.pdf




Gosh, I hope you guys are able to change the way things are done vis-a-vis the US Attorney's offices. It would be nice if POLITICAL APPOINTEES could remain in their posts long enough to get the experience they need to do a good job, OR remain there and damage the agenda of subsequent administrations that WILL NOT BE ABLE TO GET RID OF THEM if you change the rules.

US Attorneys have always served at the pleasure of the sitting Administration. The Administration has always jettisoned attorneys and replaced them with new ones. That's the prerogative of the Administration.

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