A federal judge has thrown out most of the class action suit alleging the Bush-era Justice Department improperly rejected intern applicants, the Legal Times reports.The suit was filed soon after a June 2008 report by the DOJ’s Inspector General found that applicants for the department’s intern and honors programs were wrongly — and systematically — screened based on political affiliations. One Harvard Law grad was declined because an article was found on the Internet in which he bemoaned his non-participation in the 1999 WTO protests.
This is a companion discussion topic for the original entry at https://talkingpointsmemo.com/?p=138093