updated Mon. September 9, 2024
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Christian Science Monitor
March 20, 2018
“Plaintiffs contend that the defense position is not only constitutionally problematic, but also that it's racist,” says Kansas attorney Bradley Schlozman, who filed an amicus brief early in the case and previously served in the civil rights division of the Bush administration's Justice Department. A DOJÃâà...
Bloomberg BNA
March 9, 2018
Employment discrimination cases that are referred to the division by the EEOC may not reflect the administration's agenda, said Bradley Schlozman, an acting assistant attorney general in charge of the Civil Rights Division during the George W. Bush administration. The EEOC refers discrimination casesÃâà...
Mother Jones
July 19, 2017
In 2003, Alexander Acosta, whom Trump appointed this year as secretary of labor, became the head of the Civil Rights Division, and a Republican attorney named Bradley Schlozman was placed charge of hiring for the Voting Section. Schlozman, the Justice Department's inspector general later found,Ãâà...
The Nation.
July 11, 2017
Their boss, Bradley Schlozman, said he wanted to “ “gerrymander all of those crazy libs right out of the [voting] section.” Adams was “exhibit A” for the improper hiring and rampant politicization that occurred during the Bush years, according to former voting-section chief Joe Rich. Today Adams is bestÃâà...
Mother Jones
July 11, 2017
Adams joined the department in 2005, when high-ranking official Bradley Schlozman was found by the department's inspector general to be illegally using political ideology to fill the Civil Rights Division with conservative lawyers. Adams, a conservative attorney from South Carolina, was “exhibit A” ofÃâà...
The Atlantic
February 16, 2017
According to a 2008 joint report from the Department of Justice Inspector General and Office of Professional Responsibility, in 2003, while leading the division, Acosta delegated hiring authority to a subordinate, Sheldon Bradshaw, who in turn placed Bradley Schlozman in charge of hiring decisions for theÃâà...
The Guardian
February 16, 2017
The employee, Bradley Schlozman, was ultimately hauled before a congressional committee on charges that he had used political affiliations in vetting potential civil rights attorneys. Federal law prohibits the use of political or ideological affiliation to evaluate candidates for the justice department's careerÃâà...
Huffington Post
November 15, 2016
One Bush official, Bradley Schlozman, was found to have packed the Civil Rights Division with conservatives he labeled “right-thinking Americans.” This was part of his plan to “gerrymander all of those crazy libs” ― who he also referred to as “commies” and “pinkos” ― in the division. In one emailÃâà...
ABC News
January 13, 2009
A former Justice Department official discriminated against liberal job applicants at the department and then made false statements to Congress on the matter, according to a Justice Department report released Tuesday. The probe, conducted by two watchdog groups within the department, reviewedÃâà...
Think Progress
June 5, 2007
Today at 2:30 pm ET, the Senate Judiciary Committee will hold a hearing featuring Bradley Schlozman, the controversial political appointee at the Justice Department who has emerged as a central figure in both the U.S. attorneys scandal and the politicization of the Justice Department under the BushÃâà...
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