![]() At least officially, Jones was in New York to promote his new book about that case, “ Bending Toward Justice.”īut the things we could all stand to learn from Jones are only partly about the crimes in America’s past, and our slow curve toward racial justice. attorney in the early 2000s, when he tried and convicted the two surviving Ku Klux Klan suspects who had planned the notorious Birmingham church bombing of September 1963, in which four young girls were killed and 22 other people injured. (Which is, I think, the correct attitude.) Jones first came to prominence in Alabama as a U.S. I had no doubt I would learn something from Doug Jones, although I wasn’t sure precisely what. ![]() ![]() Journalists do interviews with people they deem important in order to learn something, or so we must hope. (Let us not say definitively that those things are connected.) In case you have forgotten - and we all have short memories in this time of dread and chaos -Jones captured the nation’s attention late in 2017 by winning a nail-biting special election in Alabama against Roy Moore, a far-right, Christian nationalist hero who faced numerous credible charges of pursuing or assaulting teenage girls. Doug Jones in person seems exactly like someone who is well situated to triumph over long odds: For example, to prosecute a decades-old crime whose trail has been covered up in bitterness and silence, or to win a Senate election as a Democrat in perhaps the most Republican state in the nation.
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