USA TODAY: President Obama denounced the Senate defeat of a Justice Department nominee on Wednesday, calling it “a travesty based on wildly unfair character attacks against a good and qualified public servant.”
Fifty-two senators — 45 Republicans and seven Democrats — voted to block Debo Adegbile’s nomination to head the Justice Department’s Civil Rights Division because of the role he once played in the defense of convicted cop-killer Mumia Abu-Jamal…
The president said the rejection of Adegbile because of his legal representation of a defendant “runs contrary to a fundamental principle of our system of justice — and those who voted against his nomination denied the American people an outstanding public servant.” … (more)
