Slamming the door on justice

Tomorrow, March 7, will mark the 52nd anniversary of Bloody Sunday, the historic march and shocking police riot in Selma, Alabama, that helped build public support for passage of the Voting Rights Act. Now, a half-century later, an avowed critic of that law - former Alabama Senator Jefferson Beauregard Sessions III, who was born in Selma - has been confirmed as attorney general of the United States. In one of his first acts in office - reversing Obama's order to phase out the federal government's use of private prisons - he has begun to weaken civil rights protections.