Justice Department Seeking Retarded Lawyers?
Apparently, Rahm Emanuel’s problem with his fellow liberals is self-inflicted. Here’s a job announcement posted on the website of the U. S. Department of Justice Civil Rights Division:
The Civil Rights Division encourages qualified applicants with targeted disabilities to apply. Targeted disabilities are deafness, blindness, missing extremities, partial or complete paralysis, convulsive disorder, mental retardation, mental illness, severe distortion of limbs and/or spine. Applicants who meet the qualification requirements and are able to perform the essential functions of the position with or without reasonable accommodation are encouraged to identify targeted disabilities in response to the questions in the Avue application system seeking that information. For additional information for applicants with targeted disabilities, please contact the Civil Rights Division’s Disability Program Manager, Diane Petrie, at (202) 514-3934; see also http://www.jan.wvu.edu/LEAD/index.htm and http://www.opm.gov/disability/PeopleWithDisabilities.asp. [emphasis added]
(HT: The Volokh Conspiracy, which offers a brief commentary, and good explanation for this)
…mental illness??
That job announcement seriously reads like a Hollywood open call–how many special interest groups of our society are these Leftists going to exploit while simultaneously insulting them, or have they covered everyone by now?
See? The Obama administration IS willing to reach across the aisle…..
There is certainly an ample pool from which to draw.
That’s not funny at all. That job announcement is an insult to the disabled. To ALL of the disabled.
And to think that the American Trial Lawyers Association is one of the biggest contributors to the Democratic party.
What a bunch of idiots.