17. Department of Justice · Minor
Review DOJ hiring practices and assess hiring committees for impartiality
Printed page 570 17. Department of Justice
“Undertake a comprehensive review of DOJ hiring practices. … All hiring committees associated with hiring for career positions across the department should be assessed for impartiality to ensure that individuals are hired based on merit, aptitude, and legal skill and not based on association with or membership in certain ideologically aligned groups or based on illegal considerations such as race, religion, or sex.”
What has happened
- Partially done
Every component was ordered to review its hiring, promotion and performance-evaluation policies and report to the Office of the Attorney General by March 15, 2025, identifying race- or sex-based criteria, DEI hiring targets and the operational impact of the previous administration's DEI programs including the number of new DEI hires. That is a department-wide review of hiring practices, on the one axis the memorandum names. Hiring committees for career positions were not assessed for impartiality, and nothing addresses hiring on the basis of association with ideologically aligned groups, which is the second half of the Quote.
Research log
What was searched, and what didn’t count as evidence
Research notes
The review is real but single-axis. The second half of the Quote — assessing hiring committees for impartiality so that career hires are not made on the basis of membership in ideologically aligned groups — has no instrument on the record; we searched the Federal Register documents we keep and search, the department’s press output and opm.gov guidance for the window.
- Action
- other
- Object
- DOJ hiring practices and hiring committees
- ID
- 1582