Bush Department of Justice blacklisted applicants from LGBT, immigrant advocacy groups.
Bush Department of Justice blacklisted applicants from LGBT, immigrant advocacy groups.
The Washington Blade reports that, during the Bush administration, “applicants for Justice Department internships and honors programs may have been rejected based on their membership in LGBT” and immigrant advocacy groups. Pro-immigrant groups reportedly made up 25 percent of the list. Some other blacklisted organizations:
The Blade recently learned that among the blacklisted groups was Immigration Equality, which focuses on LGBT-related immigration issues.
Also blacklisted was the immigration project for the Gay Men’s Health Crisis. […]
Rachel Tiven, Immigration Equality’s executive director, said in a statement that her organization was “proud to be the only national LGBT organization included in the Bush Justice Department’s list of dangerous organizations” and that “opponents of equality and justice are right to fear us.”
A 2008 report by the Justice Department concluded that former Bush loyalists at the DoJ broke the law by allowing politics to influence hiring decisions. The Justice Department’s screening process was headed by Monica Goodling, a graduate of Pat Robertson’s Regent University who acknowledged that she “crossed the line of the civil service rules.” Goodling blocked the hiring of someone she viewed as a “liberal,” and she frequently checked the backgrounds of candidates for their views on “abortion” and “homosexuality.”
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i thought monica thugling had disappeared but, much like herpes, she keeps popping up when you least expect it.
July 15th, 2009 at 7:18 pmBush Department of Justice blacklisted applicants from LGBT, immigrant advocacy groups.
– - In other shocking news, Liberace was gay.
July 15th, 2009 at 7:26 pmThe fact that these people committed such acts & seem like they are gonna get away with it is disturbing.It means that any other Admin can come along & harm future applicants in just the same way & not be penalized.Eric Holder ought to stop imitating Michale Mukasey & Alberto Gonzalez & show that he is somewhat competent.So far Holder is a major fail & ineffectual at best.Holder still has Bush US Attorney Hires in place.Go figure.
July 15th, 2009 at 7:27 pmOMFG! I flip back to TP and there is the face of Satan! Again!
Faiz, you should at least post a warning when you put something like this up near the dinner hour…
PEACE
July 15th, 2009 at 7:27 pmCould we at least get a “vote down” button under future pics of loyal Bushies?
Thanks.
PEACE
July 15th, 2009 at 7:31 pmMonica Goodling is what we’ll get if the repiggies ever return to power.
She is a dominionist evangelical nutcase who wants an evangelical theocracy in this nation.
She would have no problem carrying out internment orders or worse of a right-wing coup d’etat.
July 15th, 2009 at 7:42 pmWhat a beautiful borgman.
July 15th, 2009 at 7:42 pmSince there was deliberate discrimination in hiring practices, how about we have an affirmative action program set up to give preference to the groups that have been disenfranchised, and reduce the number of “conservatives”?
Seems fair given the blatant discrimination involved.
July 15th, 2009 at 7:43 pmI hope this revelation isn’t covered by her congressional immunity…
July 15th, 2009 at 7:44 pmThis just more evidence of the lawlessness of the Bush administration. They had no respect for the Constitution and the rule of law. I am very happy I did not vote for Bush either time.
July 15th, 2009 at 7:46 pmNo doubt, evangenital. We all have to keep at the ballot box and get out the vote, because every time republicans are voted out of office, they promise their own revenge coup against the american people once they’re back in. Attorney General Monica Goodling is not outside the realm of possibility in today’s GOP.
July 15th, 2009 at 7:47 pmMegaloptera McWars says:
Attorney General Monica Goodling is not outside the realm of possibility in today’s GOP.
Thanks a lot! Now I will have nightmares for weeks!
July 15th, 2009 at 7:50 pmThere is a freeper several blocks away in my neighborhood, a 40-ish guy who is on Social Security disability, who spends every waking hour obsessed with these right-wing conspiracy plots. He is picked up a couple of times a week for a ride to an evangelical megachurch full of folks just like him.
We caught him trying to steal our Obama/Biden yard signs in October. He was not arrested, but a couple of neighbors have since obtained an injunction against him.
The cops picked him up for something else recently, and our neighborhood cop
told us that he admitted to having a list of names and addresses of the Obama
supporters “for when it goes down.” He has a history of mental illness, so he is in psychiatric custody right now.
For me, he is the face of the dominionist evangelical threat.
July 15th, 2009 at 7:54 pmThanks a lot! Now I will have nightmares for weeks!
Don’t hesitate, vote that sucker DOWN!
July 15th, 2009 at 7:56 pmPerhaps Monica could be Sarah’s running mate. They can PTL together.
July 15th, 2009 at 7:58 pmSarah Palin needs to produce the birth certificate of her “son” Trig. No one ever recalls seeing her pregnant with the last child.
In that respect, I am a birther, albeit of a different sort.
Drill, Sarah, Drill.
Produce that birth certificate now!
July 15th, 2009 at 8:09 pmA little reminder that the DOJ other government jobs are still crawling with Bushbots. Monica is gone but there are hundreds more like her. Some of whom she hired. When we get impatient with the new administration and the Congressional Dems it would serve us well to recall that it’s still a full time job to weed out the die-hard morons Chimpy left to gum up the works.
July 15th, 2009 at 8:20 pmthat picture of Monica Goodfornothing is enough to turn someone gay…sheesh…ugliness just seeps out of those people…
July 15th, 2009 at 8:34 pmMonica Goodling is as creepy as Sarah Palin is!
July 15th, 2009 at 8:35 pmI’m afraid we might see them again in a future administration down the road…
:|
July 15th, 2009 at 8:37 pmThis assholierthanthou b!tch needs to be brought up on charges.
July 15th, 2009 at 8:39 pmSounds like one hell of a law suit to make those discriminated against “whole” again!!!!
July 15th, 2009 at 9:09 pmHeck of a job Monica!
July 15th, 2009 at 9:14 pmpastcaring says:
I’m afraid we might see them again in a future administration down the road…
They are going to be a menace for the foreseeable future. On the other hand, there’s some evidence that we are going to see fewer hires by Faith and loyalty to dogma. At least we can hope our Representatives are taking that message to the floor and President Obama remembers that in his office.
July 15th, 2009 at 10:05 pmScarry picture. Very very scarry.
How smart do you think her kids are?
July 15th, 2009 at 10:15 pmNews item: Bush administration broke the law. No legal mechanism exists to prosecute them. Everybody twiddle your thumbs and forget about that “nobody’s above the law in a democracy” bullcrap you were raised on since age 3.
July 15th, 2009 at 10:20 pmThis comment has been voted down. Click to read.
Immigration Equality, which focuses on LGBT-related immigration issues.
OMG! They get a twofer!
July 15th, 2009 at 11:20 pmTim Vacuous,
So?
July 16th, 2009 at 12:01 amI still say that Congress should go through formal impeachment proceedings against many of these Bush Administration officials, especially the two at the top (whichever order they were in). Impeach them, try them, convict them, and put a lifetime ban on any of them ever serving in an office of public trust under the United States again. And, best of all, an impeachment conviction can never be pardoned. I still think it is worth it to do this. Otherwise, as many have noted, these people WILL be back the next time the Republicans win the WH.
July 16th, 2009 at 12:20 amTim, it says “information and progressive views “, not “propaganda and right-wing whining”.
July 16th, 2009 at 12:27 amIf you have anything factual and interesting to contribute, you probably won’t get voted off the island.
But that is asking an awful lot from a troll like you have proven yourself to be in the past.
So when McCain got his famous birthday cake from Bush, could he have asked to have had 25% taken out and replaced on the spot with better GOP pre-screened and approved birthday cake…just because?
July 16th, 2009 at 12:36 amI hold Monica Goodhead’s degree from Liberty U in the same esteem that I have for Darlyy’s Oral Robert CIS rag.
Good for polishing urinals. Not much else.
July 16th, 2009 at 12:36 am.
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July 16th, 2009 at 1:35 amMonica thought she was doing the Lord’s work; instead she will be going to hell for her actions.
July 16th, 2009 at 7:13 amI just wish someone would destroy her world by informing her that most of the homophobes she approved to be hired are closeted gays.
July 16th, 2009 at 11:04 amMonica Goodling is a Regents University Law Grad (note that she didn’t have ANY of her alma mater defending her) also the Oral Roberts U home of Michele Bachmann and Ted Haggard. Cuckoo for Cocoa Puffs!
Monica, “all I ever wanted to do was serve this president” {{{sob}}} Goodling, married a Redstate co-founder recently.
July 16th, 2009 at 12:24 pmDon’t care what Monica did. I still wanna DO her! I mean, what a great RACK!
July 16th, 2009 at 9:54 pm*praying* please, Jesus, please, Jesus, please, Jesus. Please make Monica a porn star. Amen. *sign of the cross*
July 16th, 2009 at 10:31 pmWe all have to keep at the ballot box and get out the vote, because every time republicans Sohbet are voted out of office,Impeach them, try them, convict them, and put a lifetime ban on any of them ever serving in an office of public trust under the United States again. theyyoutube promise their own revenge coup against the american people once they’re back in.
July 20th, 2009 at 7:02 pm