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Leitner Center for International Law and Justice, Fordham Law School in New York

A former deputy sheriff with the Dallas County, Alabama, Sheriff’s Office was charged in an indictment unsealed in the Southern District of Alabama for sexually assaulting and kidnapping a woman while he was on duty, and for misleading state investigators.

Ferguson, Missouri’s consent decree will require the police department to transform its operations, subject itself to new oversight, and cede its sovereignty to the federal government.

Justice Department Inspector General Glenn Fine, himself a political appointee in the Clinton administration, has released his report on the supposed "illegal" political hiring at the Civil Rights Division of George W. Bush's Department of Justice. [Full disclosure: I served four years as a career lawyer in CRD during the Bush era -- apparently to little notice since the report barely mentions me in passing.] Fine issued the report just days before Attorney General nominee Eric Holder's confirmation hearing. That timing seemed aimed at providing maximum political benefit to...

Tennessee is the only state in the U.S. where its Supreme Court appoints the attorney general. Skrmetti’s term starts on Sept. 1.