Attorney General A. Mitchell Palmer launched the greatest of his infamous raids on Jan. 2, 1920. They employed illegal tactics and marked height of the Red Scare.
faced a major test on this day in 1920 when raids ordered by Attorney General Mitchell Palmer saw thousands of people detained without warrants merely upon general suspicion," the National Constitution Center wrote last year.
1928: Washington, D.C.: J. Edgar Hoover, director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation, sits at his desk in the Justice Department. Hoover played a key role in the Palmer Raids; he was named FBI director in 1924."There is no time to waste on hairsplitting over infringement of liberties," wrote The Washington Post on Jan. 4.when Wilson chose him to head the Department of Justice.
The Wilson administration called the new attorney general"young, militant, progressive and fearless." "On April 30, 1920, Palmer warned of assassination attempts against ‘more than a score’ of government officials the next day. But on May Day, nothing happened, and Palmer lost momentum as a presidential candidate," according to the National Constitution Center.The Palmer Raids were deemed"lawless and subversive of constitutional liberty for citizens and aliens alike" during a Senate Judiciary hearing in February 1921.
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