Top Congressional Republicans are putting the brakes on any more attorney hiring at the Civil Rights Division until the rot is cleared out.  The rot I refer to is the rot in the Inspector General report – where people like Chris Coates were harassed for their views and Tom Perez is unwilling to eliminate “experience with a [left wing] civil rights groups” as a hiring qualification.

The Washington Times has more:

“He said any hiring within the division “needs to value intellectual diversity” to put to rest any perception that employment is based on politics. Given what he called the inspector general’s “findings of flawed criteria used to hire attorneys,” he said, Congress should demand that hiring “not be so skewed that it leads to hiring almost exclusively liberal attorneys at the expense of candidates with ‘stellar academic credentials and litigation experience.’”

Rep. Frank R. Wolf, Virginia Republican and chairman of the House Appropriations subcommittee on commerce, justice and science, has called for an independent review of the Civil Rights Division. He said the inspector general’s report made it clear that the division had become “a rat’s nest of unacceptable and unprofessional actions, and even outright threats against career attorneys and systemic mismanagement.”