What Was Once Considered Justice Advocacy Is Now Deemed Miscarriage Of Justice

Debo Adegbile

Wikipedia

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Debo_P._Adegbile

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Shame on Senate for voting down Obama civil-rights pick. "Adegbile was not himself a cop-killer. He didn't help a cop-killer get off and roam free with false claims of innocence. What he did do...was to help ensure that the American criminal justice system, and especially the death penalty, is administered fairly and constitutionally....Once upon a time in America this was called advocating for justice. But in today's America, it's deemed a miscarriage of justice. And so the fact that Adegbile has long been one of the most skilled and principled civil rights attorneys in the country is cast by Senate Republicans as a kind of catastrophic public scam." Dahlia Lithwick in Slate.

Obama: Defeat of Adegbile nomination is a 'travesty.' "President Obama strongly denounced the Senate on Wednesday for failing to confirm a top nominee to the Justice Department. In a statement released by the White House, Obama said Debo Adegbile's defeat is a 'travesty' and is based on unfair attacks....Obama said the main attack used against Adegbile -- Republicans denounced his work on behalf of convicted cop-killer Mumia Abu-Jamal -- 'runs contrary to a fundamental principle of our system of justice.'" Aaron Blake in The Washington Post.

@chadpergram: Harkin says the vote to block Adegbile was one of the lowest points he's ever seen in the US Senate.

7 Democrats defect to help GOP sink Obama's civil rights pick. "Seven Senate Democrats joined Republicans to block President Barack Obama's pick of Debo P. Adegbile to lead the Department of Justice's Civil Rights Division amid a controversy over his legal defense of convicted cop killer Mumia Abu-Jamal....It's the first presidential pick to be blocked since Democrats changed the Senate's rules via the 'nuclear option' to block filibusters of nominees." Humberto Sanchez and Steven Dennis in Roll Call.

@ThePlumLineGS: Reminder: Two red state Dems up in 2014 voted FOR Adegbile: Hagan and Landrieu.