Goodling's Partisan Hiring Expands, May Net Gonzales

Well Judas priest, of course the hiring was based on partisan BS.

How else would Goodling have gotten her job?

Goodling's Partisan Hiring Expands, May Net Gonzales:

The Justice Department has broadened an internal investigation into whether Monica Goodling and other department aides 'improperly took into account political considerations in hiring employees.'

Specifically, investigators want to learn more about Goodling's admission this week that she had 'considered party affiliation in screening applicants to become immigration judges.' The New York Times notes:

Some 75 of the 226 immigration judges have been appointed during the Bush administration. Forty-nine of them were appointed during the tenure of Mr. Gonzales, and it was during part of that period that Ms. Goodling was involved.

These immigration judges, stationed throughout the country, handled more than 300,000 cases last year on matters like deportation proceedings and political asylum requests.

Unlike federal judges, immigration judges are civil service employees, to be appointed by the attorney general based on professional qualifications, not their politics.