Prometheus 6

Two wrongs don't make a right because you can't undo things. But two wrongs can make justice.

It's that or abandon capital punishment.

Let the people hired in an improper way reapply and compete fairly for the jobs. Because so many of them were from Regent Law School, a basic competency test should weed out most of them.

Justice Dept. Issues a Callback
Illegally Rejected Applicants Urged to Try for Open Jobs
By Carrie Johnson
Washington Post Staff Writer
Wednesday, August 13, 2008; A02

Job applicants who were rejected by the Justice Department because of improper political considerations will be urged to apply for open positions, Attorney General Michael B. Mukasey told an audience yesterday.

Mukasey said that the hiring system at Justice had broken down and that department leaders had failed to supervise the behavior "of those who did wrong." But the attorney general stopped short of agreeing to weed out lawyers and immigration judges who won their jobs based on faulty criteria.

"Two wrongs do not make a right," Mukasey told the American Bar Association yesterday in New York. "The people hired in an improper way did not, themselves, do anything wrong. It therefore would be unfair -- and quite possibly illegal given their civil service protections -- to fire or reassign them without individual cause."