Debo Adegbile, the low life scumbag who represented convicted cop killer Mumia Abu Jamal has withdrawn. Debo Adegbile was nominated by Obama to run the Justice Department’s Civil Rights Division.
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| Debo Adegbile – Obama cop killer defender nominee withdraws |
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The White House sent a formal withdrawal of the nomination to the Senate Monday and said that Adegbile made the decision to drop his candidacy for the job of Assistant Attorney General for Civil Rights.
“Debo Adegbile has withdrawn himself from consideration for a position at the Department of Justice, and we are actively working toward announcing a new nominee for the post,” said a White House spokesperson who asked not to be named.
Obama nominated the veteran civil rights litigator to the high-profile job last November. However, the administration encountered uniform opposition to the nomination from Republicans, as well as a handful of Democrats. Many of them said they questioned Adegbile’s decision to help litigate appeals filed by Abu Jamal, who was convicted in 1982 of murdering a police officer in Philadelphia the previous year. He was sentenced to death but after nearly three decades of appeals the sentence was converted to life in prison in 2011.
Abu Jamal’s case has been celebrated by some liberal activists, who claim he was framed, and pointed to by death penalty supporters as evidence of gratuitous delays in carrying out capital punishment.