How people from outside anticipate DOJ policy changes as they are coming and follow them as they are occurring. COORDINATION PROBLEM

[matthewhpolsci at aol.com]

Obviously, I have trouble matching my spectacles, my fingers, and my sensitive keyboard.  Othewise, you could be sure I could spell my own last name.
 
MH  
 
 
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Subject: How people from outside anticipate DOJ policy changes as they are coming and follow them as they are occurring.


 Here is a process question of which I have asked various versions before.  I will appreciate responses, offline to avoid bothering people who are not interested.
 
If anyone on the list has actual experience, close observation, or detailed study of how issues arise and become the vehicles of DOJ policy change, I would be glad for advice on how to anticipate this or to track it.
 
DOJ does not have anything like the Administrative Procedure Act, but some people must know how to guess what is coming and to track it as it is coming.  The replacement of the Thompson Memorandum with the McNulty Memorandum on white collar prosecution is such a policy change.
 
My interest in this is activated by the fact that for the last eight days I have been going to district court to watch a bench trial of a case called US v. Ike Brown.  This is a Voting Rights Act case, and arises in Noxubee County, Mississippi, and the burden is a set of claims of black discrimination against white people in Mississippi.  
 
I am not asking about the merits of the case.  I am asking, from those who have experience or close study of the DOJ territory, about practical suggestions as to where and how to track the development of the Noxubee County issues and their transformation into a major policy decision at DOJ.  I guess this could be called a question about methodology in some sense.  Since I will surely write at least a few pages about this, one of the days, I want to avail myself of the guidance of any colleagues who know more of how to do it than I now do.
 
Again, please respond offline to avoid filling up the boxes of colleagues to whom this is of no intellectual or other valid interest.
 
Matthew Holdene, Jr.
 
 
 
Again,


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