Civil Rights Avocate Devo Adegbile SHOT DOWN BY BOTH PARTIES for nomination
to head Justice Civil Rights division.
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"Adegbile, 47, spent more than a decade working for the NAACP Legal Defense Fund, where he served as the group’s in-house voting rights expert. The legal defense fund began its work on Abu-Jamal's behalf well before Adegbile began working for it, however he did contribute to the filing of a 2009 court brief that argued that Abu-Jamal faced a discriminatory jury -- an appeal later found to have merit by a judge."
http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/post-politics/wp/2014/03/05/senate-rejects-obama-appointment-of-debo-adegbile-to-top-civil-rights-post/
The real reason was given on NPR this afternoon, to their credit -
HE WOULD HAVE AGGRESIVELY PURSUED VOTING RIGHTS VIOLATIONS!!!
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From the moment Debo Adegbile was nominated to the most recent smear in the Washington Examiner, right-wing media have made clear that their objection to President Obama's pick to head the Civil Rights Division of the Department of Justice (DOJ) is that he is one of the preeminent civil rights attorneys of his generation.
Paradoxical? Only if you believe in civil rights precedent and the idea that civil rights experts should be the ones bringing civil rights cases.
Right-wing media, apparently, believe in none of that."
http://mediamatters.org/mobile/blog/2014/03/04/right-wing-medias-eleventh-hour-smear-of-civil/198336
"Adegbile previously worked for the NAACP's Legal Defense Fund, which worked in support of Abu-Jamal's efforts to overturn his death sentence."
"That past led both of Pennsylvania's senators — including Democrat Bob Casey — to oppose Adegbile's nomination. Republicans spent much of Tuesday afternoon and Wednesday morning on the Senate floor criticizing the assistant AG choice pointedly for his work with Abu-Jamal."
"'He decided to join a political cause ... and in my view, by doing so he demonstrated his own contempt for — and frankly a willingness to undermine — the criminal justice system of the United States,' said Sen. Pat Toomey (R-Pa.). 'I do not believe that Mr. Adegbile's nomination is consistent with justice for the family of officer Danny Faulkner or for anyone else that cares about the law enforcement community.'"
http://www.politico.com/story/2014/03/senate-blocks-debo-adegbile-justice-department-104297.html
WELCOME TO THE POLICE STATE
Where cops get to decide who gets to charge them with civil rights violations.
WHAT THE FUCK DID WE WIN IN THE LAST TWO ELECTIONS?
FUCKING NOTHING AT ALL
THAT'S THE CORRECT ANSWER!!!!
