1993 under President George H.W. Bush and other senior Justice Department jobs. He had leadership roles when Los Angeles erupted in riots after the Rodney King verdict and when Cuban inmates took hostages at a prison in Alabama. He blessed Bush administration pardons in the Iran-Contra scandal and offered l

1993 under President George H.W. Bush and other senior Justice Department jobs. He had leadership roles when Los Angeles erupted in riots after the Rodney King verdict and when Cuban inmates took hostages at a prison in Alabama. He blessed Bush administration pardons in the Iran-Contra scandal and offered

cquitted. Ellison said, "I was never convinced we were going to win this case until we heard the verdict of guilty. I remember what happened in the Rodney King case, when I was a pretty young man, young lawyer, and I remember how devastated I felt when I heard that the jury acquitted those officers. Whenev

offenses that were historically regarded as within the domain of the states."); Susan N. Herman, Double Jeopardy All Over Again: Dual Sovereignty, Rodney King, and the ACLU, 41 UCLA L. Rev. 609, 629 (1994) (discussing the "increasingly substantial overlap between state and federal crime"). 4 See Symposi

offenses that were historically regarded as within the domain of the states."); Susan N. Herman, Double Jeopardy All Over Again: Dual Sovereignty, Rodney King, and the ACLU, 41 UCLA L. Rev. 609, 629 (1994) (discussing the "increasingly substantial overlap between state and federal crime"). 4 See Symposi

r hyped-up, bigoted police. The Los Angele= riots of 1992, which I covered, didn't break out when the videotape of four =olicemen beating the prone Rodney King was aired. They erupted when the cops, all evidence to the contrary, were found not guilty. The fires of Ferguson, Mo.= blazed not when Michael Brow