An opinion piece the Washington Post ran Sunday says the Justice Department is slow to prosecute what appear to be "racially motivated" murder cases from the 1950s and '60s.
I goes on to say that all the Justice Department's successful prosecutions on these types of cases have only come about because of investigative journalists' work, like that of the Center for Investigative Reporting's Cold Case Project.
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WaPo: Journalists crucial to solving civil rights era cold cases
Immigration judge misconduct gives asylee another day in court
A Justice Department investigation of an immigration judge's misconduct in Florida gives a Bahamian asylum seeker another day in court.
The National Law Journal reports that the Justice Department's Office of Professional Responsibility found that Bruce Solow, an immigration judge in Miami, "engaged in professional misconduct when he acted in reckless disregard of his obligation to be fair and impartial."
How to fix the nation's broken immigration system?
As can be expected with a new administration in Washington, there has been a stream of reports, studies, and recommendations on how to fix the nation's broken immigration system penned by think-tanks, NGOs, advocacy groups and the like since President Obama took office in January.
