A new loyalty test for prospective hires has left the Justice Department with thousands of vacancies and a mounting case backlog.

Trump’s DOJ has experienced a sharp decline in applicants—especially qualified ones—in large part because of the partisan hiring process, The Washington Post reported on Monday.

As part of the vetting process, Justice Department applicants have been required to gush over their favorite Trump executive order or policy and detail how they would move it forward, the Post reported.

Career positions like those at the DOJ are designed to be nonpolitical—but experts described this question as a “workaround.”

“Even though that question doesn’t ask if you are Republican, the spirit of that question asks for the job applicant to give their loyalty to the president,” R

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