Democrats Block Obama's DOJ Nominee Debo Adegbile

Democrats Block Obama’s DOJ Nominee Debo Adegbile

By JM Rieger, Humberto Sanchez and Steven T. Dennis

Posted March 5, 2014 at 3:11pm

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.

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