Senate blocks Obama’s civil rights nominee
The Senate filibustered President Obama’s nominee to lead the Justice Department’s civil rights division, with
seven Democrats joining Republicans Wednesday in arguing his past history defending a convicted cop-killer made him the wrong man for the job.
The defeat of
Debo P. Adegbile, who as a lawyer for the NAACP
filed a brief arguing that former Black Panther Mumia Abu-Jamal’s murder trial was tainted by racism, is a major blow to Mr. Obama.
It comes even after Democrats changed the rules last year to overcome filibusters with just 50 votes — but on Wednesday Majority Leader Harry Reid couldn’t even
muster all of his own troops.
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