Along with the murders, various acts of terrorism and violence ensued. The tipping point for all this bloodshed was the March 7, 1965 attack on peaceful marchers by state troopers crossing the Edmund Pettus Bridge in the city of Selma, Alabama (Justice, 2016)
Department of Justice. From 1994 to 1997, he served as Principal Associate Deputy Attorney General, supervising major cases, such as the prosecutions of Oklahoma City Bombers Timothy McVeigh and Terry Nichols and Unabomber Ted Kaczynsk" (Meko, Keating, Urhmacher, & Stamm, 2016), the nomination faces strong opposition from a Republican Majority Congress