The Daily Background

Oh boy. Hopefully Monica Goodling will be asked about this when she goes before the House Judiciary Committee today. Apparently she tried to block one DoJ appointee for being a liberal politically. ThinkProgress recalls:

Such allegations against Goodling are nothing new. Media accounts have documented how she “moved to block the hiring of prosecutors with résumés that suggested they might be Democrats,” and quizzed “applicants for civil service jobs at Justice Department headquarters with questions that several United States attorneys said were inappropriate, like who was their favorite president and Supreme Court justice. One department official said an applicant was even asked, ‘Have you ever cheated on your wife?‘”

Hiring for such positions based on political affiliation is a violation of federal law.

Goodling will be sworn in at 10:15AM EST. Here’s a preview of what today may hold, from Countdown with Keith Olberman: