CNN reports:Congressional investigators are looking into new allegations a top official at the Justice Department illegally hired career lawyers based on their political affiliations.
Investigators are focusing on Bradley Schlozman, a former top official in the department's Civil Rights Division, who recently returned to Washington after serving as interim U.S. attorney in Kansas City, Missouri.
The Justice Department denies violating federal law, saying an applicant's political affiliation "is not a criterion solicited or considered in the hiring process."
The claims have surfaced amid the congressional investigation of the firings of federal prosecutors in eight cities in 2006 -- allegedly for political rather than professional reasons....
Photo: (Getty via CNN.com) Vermont Democrat Patrick Leahy is chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee, which on Monday questioned Bradley Schlozman about his handling of voter-fraud cases.
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