ACLU calls for inquiry into Alaska official who wrote racist and antisemitic tweets

ACLU of Alaska spokesperson says some of Matthias Cicotte's tweets aimed directly at incarceration and criminal prosecution'

The American Civil Liberties Union of Alaska (ACLU) has called for an investigation and audit" of the case record of a senior Alaskan legal official revealed by the Guardian to be operating a far-right Deseret nationalist, or DezNat", Twitter account under the pseudonym JReubenCIark.

In a statement to the Guardian in response to revelations that tweets from the account were antisemitic, racist, homophobic and advocated violence, the state ACLU spokesperson, Megan Edge, said the work of assistant attorney general Matthias Cicotte needed to be closely examined.