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Assistant Attorney General Kristen Clarke of the Justice Department’s Civil Rights Division and U.S. Attorney Kevin G. Ritz for the Western District of Tennessee held a press conference about ...
Nationally renowned minister and civil rights leader Al Sharpton eulogized McGhee. Families of other inmates who died in the jail were also present. Al Sharpton calls for DOJ investigation into ...
Notable civil rights attorney Ben Crump (left) comforts Laquita and Marcus Byrd whose son Deion Byrd was fatally stabbed while in pretrial detention in a holding area of a Shelby County Criminal ...
Steven J. Mulroy (born April 9, 1964) is the District Attorney of Shelby County, Tennessee. Previously, he was a University of Memphis law professor who served on the County Commission for Shelby County, Tennessee from District 5 from 2006 to 2014.
The division was established on December 9, 1957, by order of Attorney General William P. Rogers, after the Civil Rights Act of 1957 created the head office of Assistant Attorney General for Civil Rights (AAG-CR; appointed by the president and confirmed by the Senate).
Before entering private practice, Skrmetti served as a federal prosecutor for almost a decade, first with the Civil Rights Division of the U.S. Department of Justice, and then as an Assistant U.S. Attorney in Memphis [1] from 2011 to 2014. [2] Skrmetti was also a partner at Butler Snow LLP in Memphis. [3]
Shelby County District Attorney Steve Mulroy speaks to the press during a press conference at the Shelby County District Attorney’s Office in Memphis, Tenn., on Tuesday, January 23, 2024.
Shelby County v. Holder, 570 U.S. 529 (2013), is a landmark decision [1] of the Supreme Court of the United States regarding the constitutionality of two provisions of the Voting Rights Act of 1965: Section 5, which requires certain states and local governments to obtain federal preclearance before implementing any changes to their voting laws or practices; and subsection (b) of Section 4 ...