By Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com It’s well-known that notorious FBI Director J. Edgar Hoover loathed civil rights leader Martin Luther King Jr. That has never been made clearer than in an uncensored letter from Hoover to King that was recently found among the former director’s archives, the New York Times wrote. In the letter, Hoover calls…
By Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com Widespread corruption, misconduct and abusive behavior were found in Alabama’s prison system following a six-month investigation by a nonprofit law firm. Now the firm, the Montgomery-based Equal Justice Initiative, is urging the Justice Department to conduct a formal investigation, the Montgomery Advertiser reports. Alleging extreme violence, security problems and a culture…
By Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com Few people in law enforcement played as key a role as John Doar in protecting civil liberties of African Americans. A top civil rights lawyer for the Justice Department in the 1960s, Doar died Tuesday, the Associated Press reports. He was 92 and had congestive heart failure in New York. Doar…
By Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com Should the name of a Border Patrol agent who shot and killed a Mexican teen be released to the public? A federal judge is expected to hear arguments Thursday from the family of the teen who wants the agent to be identified, the Arizona Daily Star reports. The mother of Jose…
By Democrat & Chronicle Editorial Board After the shellacking that President Obama took in last week’s midterm elections, the last thing he needs is another fight. That’s why he was wise to nominate Loretta Lynch as the nation’s next attorney general. The Senate, which switches to Republican control starting in January, should have little…
