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Obama nominates a Cop Killers lawyer to DOJ

Tam

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One of Obama's nominees that was a lawyer for a convicted cop killer will likely be approved because of Reid's destroying the Filibuster on Obama appointees, even though the wife of the cop killed and thousands of law enforcement offices have voice their objection and feel it is a slap to law enforcements faces that he was nominated by a President that shows everyday that he does not give a sh*t what people think about his radical appointees.

And did all of you know Obama by executive order loosened the requirements of those immigrating to the US, making it easier for terrorists to immigrate to the US?

The man does not care about your safety all he cares about is his LEFTWING AGENDA and anyone standing in his way are just a temporary annoyance to be dealt with by his IRS, FBI, DOJ, and any other government agency he can think of to use to intimidate you into silence. :mad:
 
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One of the best defense attorneys in Montana- who was often appointed by the State and Federal Courts to defend the most heinous of criminals- later became one of the better more common sense County Attorneys I ever knew... Because of his knowledge and ability, the Judges often chose him to defend these high profile/emotion cases , knowing that with him there would be less chance of an error and subsequent mistrial upon a conviction and appeal...

After he retired from the County Attorneys position he went back to defense work... As he said- everyone has the right to the most vigorous defense you could give them- but he would never knowingly let a person lie/perjure themselves...

Many well respected attorneys/judges have worked both defense and prosecution- and their experience in one often compliment each other and makes them better in the other ........
 

Tam

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Seems these people don't agree with you when it comes to your hero's appointee. :roll:

Major Law Enforcement Organizations Staunchly Oppose DOJ Nomination of Cop Killer Advocate Debo Adegbile
Katie Pavlich | Feb 06, 2014

By now you've probably heard the details about President Obama's nominee, Debo Adegbile, to head the Civil Rights Division inside the Department of Justice. In 2011, Adegbile voluntarily took on the case and cause of America's most notorious cop killer, Mumia Abu-Jamal, 30 years after he was convicted of murdering Philadelphia police officer Daniel Faulker. Despite his radical past and voluntary support for Abu-Jamal, Obama wants him to be in charge of the DOJ division responsible for bringing cases against police officers and law enforcement agencies.

Today, the Senate Judiciary Committee will vote on his nomination. Six major law enforcement organizations representing more than one million law enforcement officers across the country have sent scathing letters to Senators and President Obama opposing Adegbile's nomination. Leaders from the organizations describe Adegbile's nomination as offensive, insulting and deeply concerning. Below are excerpts from those letters.

National Fraternal Order of Police

As world of this nomination spreads through the law enforcement community, reactions range from anger to incredulity. Under this nominee's leadership, the Legal Defense Fund (LDF) of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People volunteered their services to represent Wesley Cook, better known to the world as Mumia Abu-Jamal --- our country's most notorious cop-killer. There is no disputing that Philadelphia Police Officer Daniel Faulkner was murdered by this thug. His just sentence - death - was undone by your nominee and others like him who turned the justice system on its head with unfounded and unproven allegations of racism. We are aware of the tried and true shield behind which activists of Adegbile's ilk are wont to hide - that everyone is entitled to a defense; but surely you would agree that a defense should not be based on falsely disparaging and savaging the good name and reputation of a lifeless police officer. Certainly any legal scholar can see the injustice and absence of ethics in this cynical race-baiting approach to our legal system.

This nomination can be interpreted in only one way; it is a thumb in the eye of our nation's law enforcement.It demonstrates a total lack of regard or empathy for those who strive to keep you and everyone else in our nation safe in your home and neighborhoods -- sometimes giving their lives in the effort. Standing up and fighting against racism wherever and whenever you find it is a brave and admirable endeavor; sometimes standing up against racism entails opposing and exposing cynical opportunism disguised in the name of justice. We will make every effort to point this out in our opposition to this nomination and will do everything we can to defeat it in the Senate. It is our hope, that in the future, you and your Administration will consider candidates with records of fairness and respect to all Americans when selecting nominees for leadership positions at the Justice Department or anywhere else in your administration.



Major County Sheriff's Association

Having reviewed his past engagement in legal and law enforcement related issues, we have concerns over his involvement with the Legal Defense Fund of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) and the fact that the organization volunteered to defend Mumia Abu-Jamal. The murder of Officer Daniel Faulkner by Mumia Abu-Jamal was in itself a tragedy, but the subsequent overturning of the death sentence he received for the murder was due to the manipulation of the justice system by the Legal Defense Fund.

More importantly, in what appears to be a consistent and purposeful pattern, MCSA was not consulted on this nomination in advance of the announcement to provide our members with the opportunity to pose questions and concerns in order to get to know the nominee. We have found this lack of consultation to be the case across the law enforcement stakeholder community and are extremely discouraged by this continual pattern of deliberate exclusion. We have participated in several meetings with Attorney General Eric Holder where he pledged to be more open and transparent about Department of Justice decisions, a pledge that is not consistent with this nomination.


National Association of Police Organizations, Inc.


On behalf of the National Association of Police Organizations (NAPO), I am writing to express our strongest possible opposition to the nomination of Debo Adegbile to be the next Assistant Attorney General for the Civil Rights Division at the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ).

NAPO is deeply concerned that under Mr. Adegbile’s leadership, the Legal Defense Fund of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People volunteered their services to defend Mumia Abu-Jamal, a convicted cop- killer. Abu-Jamal was convicted of murdering Philadelphia Police Officer Daniel Faulkner in 1982. Mr. Adegbile worked tirelessly to free this unrepentant cop-killer. The nominee’s efforts led to the overturning of the just sentence Abu-Jamal received for murdering a valuable member of the law enforcement community.

NAPO firmly believes Mr. Adegbile’s history makes him an inappropriate choice to lead DOJ’s Civil Rights Division, and we vehemently oppose this nomination. We urge you to reconsider the nomination, as Mr. Adegbile has not shown respect for members of law enforcement who put their lives on the line everyday to keep our nation safe.

National Narcotic Officers' Associations' Coalition

Our members, as well as many other law enforcement officers across the country, are angered and insulted by this nomination. His [Adegbile] proactive support for convicted cop killer Wesley Cook, AKA: Mumia Abu-Jamal, which included fabricating a baseless and unproven defense while also defaming the victims, Police Officer Daniel Faulkner, raises serious questions about your nominee's judgement, especially considering the important position to which he has been nominated.

Mumia Abu-Jamal was convicted of murdering Officer Faulkner, but with the help of Debo Adegbile, this case of murder was turned into a perverse case of assault against law enforcement, our constitution and our justice system. Such reprehensible conduct and poor decision making should disqualify anyone from being considered to lead the Civil Rights Division, for it is that person who will be responsible for ensuring that justice is fairly administered to all people, victims and defendants alike. The leader of the Civil Rights Division must be someone who has a record of bringing people together, not dividing and provoking them; someone who can be respectful and responsive to everyone, not just those whom they represent or support.



National Sheriffs' Association


We have serious concerns regarding Mr. Adegbile’s past leadership at the Legal Defense Fund (LDF) of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, specifically LDF’s controversial defense strategies in the representation of Mumia Abu-Jamal for the 1981 slaying of Philadelphia Police Office Daniel Faulkner.

Furthermore, the Administration has continued its pattern of ignoring the law enforcement community when considering issues that directly impact us. Notwithstanding pledges by Attorney General Eric Holder to be more open and transparent regarding Department of Justice decisions, neither NSA nor any other law enforcement organization of which we are aware was consulted regarding this nomination. It is tremendously disappointing that the Administration would continue to exclude a community that works each and every day to keep our citizens and our communities safe.

Accordingly, the National Sheriffs’ Association strongly opposes the nomination of Mr. Adegbile to lead the Civil Rights Division at the U.S. Department of Justice. Moreover, we again urge you to include the law enforcement community in the Administration’s deliberations regarding decisions at the Department of Justice.

New Jersey State Policemen's Benevolent Association

Mr. Adegbile's activism and defense of convicted cop killer Mumia Abu-Jamal makes him an inappropriate and offensive choice to join the office of the Attorney General in such a high profile and important position. Mumia Abu-Jamal murdered Philadelphia Police Officer Daniel Faulkner in 1982 (his conviction has been repeatedly upheld on appeal) and his horrific actions have left a scar on Philadelphia and the law enforcement community throughout New Hersey and the nation ever since. There are few cold blooded killers who yield as much disgust amongst law enforcement officers as Mumia Abu-Jamal and Mr. Adegbile's efforts to overturn his sentence disparages the memory of Officer Faulkner.
 

Mike

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One more Tam:
On a straight party-line vote Thursday, the Senate Judiciary Committee approved civil rights lawyer Debo Adegbile’s nomination to head the Justice Department’s Civil Rights Division.


Adegbile, a longtime voting-rights specialist for the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund, had drawn opposition, in particular from Philadelphia officials, because of his representation of Mumia Abu-Jamal, a convicted cop-killer there.

The Fraternal Order of Police called the nomination “a thumb in the eye of our nation’s law enforcement officers.” Other law enforcement groups, the police officer's widow and, most recently, Philadelphia Dist. Atty. Seth Williams opposed the nomination because of Adegbile’s association with Abu-Jamal, who became a cause celebre for some liberal activists.

This “was a cause premised on the notion that this country’s most notorious cop killer, Mumia Abu-Jamal, was a victim,” Sen. Charles E. Grassley (R-Iowa), said Thursday before voting against Adegbile.

“At bottom, that is why the law enforcement community is so staunchly opposed to the nomination,” said Grassley, the ranking Republican on the committee.


The 10-8 vote approving Adegbile is an indication that he will be approved on the Senate floor unless Democrats start to abandon the nomination. Under new Senate rules, Republicans alone cannot stop final approval with a filibuster.


http://www.latimes.com/nation/nationnow/la-na-debo-adegbile-civil-rights-abujamal-20140206,0,6368281.story#ixzz2sbl89g3f
Maybe OT needs to study up on Mumia?
 

Mike

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President Obama’s nominee to be the nation’s top civil rights enforcer is a race-obsessed lawyer who tried to permanently free unrepentant cop-killer Mumia Abu-Jamal.

This radical so-called civil rights lawyer, Debo Adegbile, was until fairly recently head of the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund. Like Attorney General Eric Holder, Adegbile is a staunch affirmative action supporter and doesn’t appear to believe that white Americans are entitled to civil rights protection. Currently he serves as senior counsel to the U.S. Senate Judiciary Committee, which is chaired by Sen. Pat Leahy (D-Vt.).




It’s yet another nomination to high federal office in which Obama isn’t even trying to conceal his anti-American radicalism. “Obama’s nominee process involves finding the worst person on earth for that job or any job,” as Daniel Greenfield observes. “It’s a process that never fails.”

Interestingly, Adegbile has a personal story that’s similar to Obama’s. The DoJ nominee was raised by a single mother in the absence of her son’s Nigerian father, reports the Washington Post.

Under Adegbile’s leadership, NAACP LDF acted in several legal proceedings for the black leftist folk hero who has parlayed his 1981 murder of white Philadelphia police officer Daniel Faulkner into a career behind bars. Born Wesley Cook, the former Black Panther often referred to affectionately in radical circles as simply “Mumia,” enjoys celebrity status on the Left and is a frequent guest speaker at college commencement ceremonies.

“The question of Abu-Jamal’s guilt is not a close call,” according to John Fund. “Two hospital workers testified that Abu-Jamal confessed to them: ‘I shot the motherf***er, and I hope the motherf***er dies.’ His brother, William, has never testified to his brother’s innocence even though he was at the scene of the crime. Abu-Jamal himself chose not to testify in his own defense.”

As Faulkner tried to arrest Abu-Jamal’s brother during a traffic stop, Abu-Jamal shot the policeman once in the back and then stood over him and shot him four more times at close range, once directly in the face. Multiple eyewitnesses were present during the crime.

Adegbile’s “nomination is an in-the-face appointment,” according to J. Christian Adams, a Justice Department whistle-blower who chronicled the vicious racial politics of the DoJ’s Civil Rights Division in his bestselling book, Injustice: Exposing the Racial Agenda of the Obama Justice Department.

“Any thought that Obama would moderate as a lame duck with collapsing poll numbers vanishes with the Adegbile nomination.”

While Adegbile was at the helm of the NAACP Legal Defense Fund, the organization became increasingly radical, opposing criminal-background checks by employers and pushing extreme racial-hiring quotas.




“They took positions far outside of the mainstream of the law, far outside existing jurisprudence as it relates to race, and really advanced a fringe agenda,” said Adams. “If he attempts to do the same at the Justice Department, it will be a catastrophe.”

The NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund is an important component of the left-wing legal firmament. President Obama calls NAACP LDF “simply the best civil rights law firm in American history.”

The nonprofit litigation shop is supported financially by the usual suspects in the world of radical left-wing philanthropy. Anti-American billionaire and convicted inside trader George Soros has given to the organization through his Open Society Institute ($950,000 since 2004) and his Foundation to Promote Open Society ($833,000 since 2009).

Other major radical funders include Ford Foundation ($16,895,000 since 2000), New York Community Trust ($2,992,790 since 2004), John D. & Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation ($1,250,000 since 2003), Tides Foundation ($521,083 since 2002), and Carnegie Corp. of New York ($385,000 since 2000).

At the Justice Department, Adegbile would replace the notorious Thomas Perez, a radical who was barely confirmed by the Senate as labor secretary on an unusual strict party line vote of 54 to 46 last July.

As the nation’s top civil rights enforcer at the Department of Justice, Perez refused to prosecute hate crimes committed against white Americans. He was reportedly instrumental in the Justice Department’s dismissal of a case involving two members of the New Black Panther Party who intimidated white voters in Philadelphia on Election Day 2008.

Perez played a major role in enacting the Church Arson Prevention Act, which was based on the false premise that black churches were being targeted with disproportionate frequency by arsonists. He targeted Maricopa County, Ariz. Sheriff Joe Arpaio, for legal harassment because he doesn’t like Arpaio’s tough-on-crime approach, especially with respect to illegal aliens.

Perez favors the use of affirmative action in hiring at higher education and healthcare facilities. He likens bankers to Ku Klux Klan members. Bankers discriminate “with a smile” and “fine print,” but they are “every bit as destructive as the cross burned in the neighborhood,” Perez said.

Adegbile is more measured and circumspect than Perez when speaking publicly, so outrageous, inflammatory quotations from the nominee are harder to find. But the would-be civil rights division chief appears to be just as radical as Perez.

More than likely Adegbile is an adherent of critical race theory, the multiculturalist Left’s race-obsessed spinoff of critical legal theory. Judge Richard Posner of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit has described critical race theorists as the “lunatic core” of “radical legal egalitarianism.” They believe that the white-dominated American system is hopelessly racist. To remedy this imbalance, non-whites should be given preferential treatment, they say.

Adegbile lost a case before the Supreme Court last year (Shelby County, Alabama v. Holder) in which he argued that large swaths of America are racist hellholes that maliciously prevent minorities from voting.

In a rare victory for both the Constitution and common sense, the high court finally recognized that the anti-discrimination provisions of the Voting Rights Act, which gave the federal government a veto over changes in state election laws, may have been needed when the law was enacted in 1965, but no longer.

The Voting Rights Act is what unscrupulous Attorney General Holder used to block states from implementing voter ID laws aimed at combating election fraud. The Left relies on fraud to win closely contested elections.

Adegbile has said that “the Voting Rights Act is Alabama’s gift to this country.” He also said that Martin Luther King Jr. would not want the United States to “blow up the bridge” of affirmative action.

As acting director-counsel of LDF, Adegbile successfully argued against plaintiff Abigail Noel Fisher, a white woman who asserted that University of Texas Law School’s affirmative action admissions policy blocked her from securing admission to the school.

Adegbile served as the LDF’s director of litigation before the firm’s president, John Payton, died in March 2012. When LDF took the Abu-Jamal case, Payton threw out a series of red herrings in order to distract from the overwhelming evidence of the defendant’s guilt.

“Mumia Abu-Jamal’s conviction and death sentence are relics of a time and place that was notorious for police abuse and racial discrimination,” said Payton. ”Unless and until courts acknowledge and correct these historic injustices, death sentences like Mr. Abu-Jamal’s will invite continued skepticism of the criminal justice system by the African-American community.”

It’s nihilistic hogwash. The argument is more or less that obviously guilty defendants like Abu-Jamal should go free if there is police abuse or racial discrimination in their communities. That would be a racial variety of this pie-in-the-sky thing called social justice.

Although not too many Americans outside of the true believers of the professional Left and radical activist circles actually think Mumia Abu-Jamal is innocent, there is no reason to believe that Adegbile dissents from the views of his former boss.

He’s an ideologue who believes that the legal system should be used to dispense favors to non-whites. White Americans, he feels, should be treated as second-class citizens in order to make up for America’s past racial injustices, real or perceived.

Of necessity, he despises the Constitution.

This makes Adegbile an ideal Obama nominee.
 

Tam

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Mike said:
Maybe OT needs to study up on Mumia?


Really REALLY :shock: do you really think Oldtimer will even peek at anything about who OBAMA appoints. He is a Koolaid drinking defender of all things Obama does. :roll: He will defend Obama's appointee even when thousands of his fellow law enforcement officers are disgusted over it. YOU CAN'T FIX STUPID NOT IN OBAMA OR OLDTIMER. :roll:
 

Mike

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Oldtimer said:
One of the best defense attorneys in Montana- who was often appointed by the State and Federal Courts to defend the most heinous of criminals- later became one of the better more common sense County Attorneys I ever knew... Because of his knowledge and ability, the Judges often chose him to defend these high profile/emotion cases , knowing that with him there would be less chance of an error and subsequent mistrial upon a conviction and appeal...

After he retired from the County Attorneys position he went back to defense work... As he said- everyone has the right to the most vigorous defense you could give them- but he would never knowingly let a person lie/perjure themselves...

Many well respected attorneys/judges have worked both defense and prosecution- and their experience in one often compliment each other and makes them better in the other ........

Debo Adegbile was not an appointed defense lawyer for Mumia. Mumia had adequate representation attorneys. Plenty of them.

Adegbile jumped in on this case for the notoriety and to defend an admitted black cop killer who hated whites, thus the reason for murdering the cop.

This led him to be head attorney for the NAACP.

Adegbile just lost a "Huge" voting rights case against Alabama and pulled every race card in the deck along the way.

He is an evil, self centered n*gga in every sense of the word that will stoop to anything to get back at every "cracka" possible.

There is no place for the likes of him in our judicial system with his divisive ways...............................
 

Tam

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Of Late Obama nominated a guy that has never been to Norway and proved it in his confirmation hearing to be the Ambassador to Norway :roll: He got the appointment because he raised a LOT of money for Obama.

And the other day there was lots of talk about his appointee to be US Surgeon General and people wondering if he isn't to partisan to handle the job. But then considering he was the head guy in Doctors for Obama I don't know why anyone would come to that conclusion. :roll:

Judge Obama by the people he keeps around him. :roll:
 

Tam

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Mike said:
Oldtimer said:
One of the best defense attorneys in Montana- who was often appointed by the State and Federal Courts to defend the most heinous of criminals- later became one of the better more common sense County Attorneys I ever knew... Because of his knowledge and ability, the Judges often chose him to defend these high profile/emotion cases , knowing that with him there would be less chance of an error and subsequent mistrial upon a conviction and appeal...

After he retired from the County Attorneys position he went back to defense work... As he said- everyone has the right to the most vigorous defense you could give them- but he would never knowingly let a person lie/perjure themselves...

Many well respected attorneys/judges have worked both defense and prosecution- and their experience in one often compliment each other and makes them better in the other ........

Debo Adegbile was not an appointed defense lawyer for Mumia. Mumia had adequate representation attorneys. Plenty of them.

Adegbile jumped in on this case for the notoriety and to defend an admitted black cop killer who hated whites, thus the reason for murdering the cop.

This led him to be head attorney for the NAACP.

Adegbile just lost a "Huge" voting rights case against Alabama and pulled every race card in the deck along the way.

He is an evil, self centered n*gga in every sense of the word that will stoop to anything to get back at every "cracka" possible.

There is no place for the likes of him in our judicial system with his divisive ways...............................

The guy was found guilty using other lawyers. It was the trial that got him off death row that Obama's appointee jump in on by VOLUNTEERING to be his lawyer. He got him off death row by claiming the trial that convinced his COP KILLING client was RACE BASED. Which it wasn't true but it was enough to keep the guy from getting his just needle in the arm after he admittedly shot the cop five times and one being in the face because the cop came to arrest his brother.
 

hypocritexposer

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Martin Jr. said:
If the skin colors were reversed, he would never be appointed.

Exactly right, but "diversity" nowadays seems to trump all. But the colour of his skin is not the only reason for obama's choice.

Unfortunately, political correctness has made his defense of a "cop killer", the only argument that has not been made taboo yet, so that is what is brought to the forefront.

Other arguments have been effectively silenced by the "Left"...



DEBO ADEGBILE

Born in the Bronx, New York in 1967, Debo Adegbile was a child actor on the television show Sesame Street for nine years during the 1970s. After attending Connecticut College and the New York University School of Law, he became an attorney and spent the first seven years of his career with the New York City-based firm of Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison. Adegbile then served in various capacities with the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund (LDEF) from 2001 through May 2013, including eight months as the organization's acting president and director counsel during 2012.

In April 2005 Adegbile participated in a panel at a Yale Law School conference titled “The Constitution in 2020.” The event—whose goal was to lay out a blueprint for the evolution of a new, “progressive” U.S. Constitution within 15 years—was sponsored by George Soros’s Open Society Institute and the Center for American Progress.

In 2008 Adegbile served on an advisory board that helped the Soros-funded American Constitution Society produce a 44-page paper urging President Barack Obama to establish, by executive fiat, a new agency designed to close the “gap between the human rights ideals that the United States professes and its actual domestic practice.” Specifically, the paper condemned the U.S. for engaging in “torture” as well as “cruel, inhuman [and] degrading treatment … in the name of counterterrorism”; lamented that “inequalities persist in access to housing, education, jobs, and health care”; denounced “gross racial disparities in the application of the death penalty”; impugned the “racial and ethnic profiling that has been used unfairly to target” nonwhites and Muslims; and charged that a “pay gap persists between female and male workers.” The paper also pressed Obama to “nominate judges who will [recognize] that ratified treaties and customary international law are the law of the land” in America.[1]

In 2009 Adegbile and a number of other LDEF lawyers filed a friend-of-the-court brief with the U.S. Supreme Court, alleging that former Black Panther Mumia Abu Jamal's conviction for the 1981 killing of a white Philadelphia police officer was invalid because the jury-selection process had been tainted by racial discrimination. In 2011, when Adegbile was LDEF's director of litigation, the organization successfully represented Abu-Jamal in an appeal that resulted (in 2012) in the reduction of his death sentence to life-imprisonment-without-parole.

Adegbile passionately defends affirmative action and opposes the right of employers to conduct criminal-background checks on prospective hires—on the premise that such checks have a disproportionate effect on African Americans.

In a high-profile 2012 case, Adegbile successfully argued against plaintiff Abigail Noel Fisher, a white woman who asserted that the University of Texas Law School’s affirmative-action policy had blocked her from securing admission to that institution. A brief that Adegbile filed on behalf of UT's Black Student Alliance argued that the policy was justified because the school's existing “race-neutral efforts” had resulted in the enrollment of an “unacceptably low” number of “underrepresented minority students”; that “diversity's educational benefits go to the heart of our democracy”; and that, “y virtue of our Nation's struggle with racial inequality, [nonwhite] students are both likely to have experiences of particular importance to [a university's] mission, and less likely to be admitted in meaningful numbers [based] on criteria that ignore these experiences.”

Adegbile, who believes that “a troubling strain of obstructing the path to the ballot box remains a part of our society,” has twice argued cases in the Supreme Court defending the 1965 Voting Rights Act[2]—most recently in 2013. On that occasion, he defended Section 5 of the Act, which required that in fifteen separate (mostly Southern) states, no existing election laws could be altered in any way without first being precleared by either the Justice Department or a federal court. The Court ruled that Section 5 was both unconstitutional and based on outdated racial circumstances.

In early January 2014 it was reported that President Obama was likely to appoint Adegbile—who at the time was senior counsel to the U.S. Senate Judiciary Committee—to replace Thomas Perez as Assistant Attorney General for Civil Rights. In response to these reports, America's largest police organization, the Fraternal Order of Police, sent a letter to Obama expressing “extreme disappointment, displeasure and vehement opposition” to the nomination of a man who had worked so hard on behalf of a convicted cop-killer, Mumia Abu-Jamal.[3]



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hopalong

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Judge Obama by the people he keeps around him. Rolling Eyes

And those that support his every move like lil and big oldtimer, et al
 
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Tam said:
Seems these people don't agree with you when it comes to your hero's appointee. :roll:

Major Law Enforcement Organizations Staunchly Oppose DOJ Nomination of Cop Killer Advocate Debo Adegbile
Katie Pavlich | Feb 06, 2014

By now you've probably heard the details about President Obama's nominee, Debo Adegbile, to head the Civil Rights Division inside the Department of Justice. In 2011, Adegbile voluntarily took on the case and cause of America's most notorious cop killer, Mumia Abu-Jamal, 30 years after he was convicted of murdering Philadelphia police officer Daniel Faulker. Despite his radical past and voluntary support for Abu-Jamal, Obama wants him to be in charge of the DOJ division responsible for bringing cases against police officers and law enforcement agencies.

Today, the Senate Judiciary Committee will vote on his nomination. Six major law enforcement organizations representing more than one million law enforcement officers across the country have sent scathing letters to Senators and President Obama opposing Adegbile's nomination. Leaders from the organizations describe Adegbile's nomination as offensive, insulting and deeply concerning. Below are excerpts from those letters.

National Fraternal Order of Police

As world of this nomination spreads through the law enforcement community, reactions range from anger to incredulity. Under this nominee's leadership, the Legal Defense Fund (LDF) of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People volunteered their services to represent Wesley Cook, better known to the world as Mumia Abu-Jamal --- our country's most notorious cop-killer. There is no disputing that Philadelphia Police Officer Daniel Faulkner was murdered by this thug. His just sentence - death - was undone by your nominee and others like him who turned the justice system on its head with unfounded and unproven allegations of racism. We are aware of the tried and true shield behind which activists of Adegbile's ilk are wont to hide - that everyone is entitled to a defense; but surely you would agree that a defense should not be based on falsely disparaging and savaging the good name and reputation of a lifeless police officer. Certainly any legal scholar can see the injustice and absence of ethics in this cynical race-baiting approach to our legal system.

This nomination can be interpreted in only one way; it is a thumb in the eye of our nation's law enforcement.It demonstrates a total lack of regard or empathy for those who strive to keep you and everyone else in our nation safe in your home and neighborhoods -- sometimes giving their lives in the effort. Standing up and fighting against racism wherever and whenever you find it is a brave and admirable endeavor; sometimes standing up against racism entails opposing and exposing cynical opportunism disguised in the name of justice. We will make every effort to point this out in our opposition to this nomination and will do everything we can to defeat it in the Senate. It is our hope, that in the future, you and your Administration will consider candidates with records of fairness and respect to all Americans when selecting nominees for leadership positions at the Justice Department or anywhere else in your administration.



Major County Sheriff's Association

Having reviewed his past engagement in legal and law enforcement related issues, we have concerns over his involvement with the Legal Defense Fund of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) and the fact that the organization volunteered to defend Mumia Abu-Jamal. The murder of Officer Daniel Faulkner by Mumia Abu-Jamal was in itself a tragedy, but the subsequent overturning of the death sentence he received for the murder was due to the manipulation of the justice system by the Legal Defense Fund.

More importantly, in what appears to be a consistent and purposeful pattern, MCSA was not consulted on this nomination in advance of the announcement to provide our members with the opportunity to pose questions and concerns in order to get to know the nominee. We have found this lack of consultation to be the case across the law enforcement stakeholder community and are extremely discouraged by this continual pattern of deliberate exclusion. We have participated in several meetings with Attorney General Eric Holder where he pledged to be more open and transparent about Department of Justice decisions, a pledge that is not consistent with this nomination.


National Association of Police Organizations, Inc.


On behalf of the National Association of Police Organizations (NAPO), I am writing to express our strongest possible opposition to the nomination of Debo Adegbile to be the next Assistant Attorney General for the Civil Rights Division at the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ).

NAPO is deeply concerned that under Mr. Adegbile’s leadership, the Legal Defense Fund of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People volunteered their services to defend Mumia Abu-Jamal, a convicted cop- killer. Abu-Jamal was convicted of murdering Philadelphia Police Officer Daniel Faulkner in 1982. Mr. Adegbile worked tirelessly to free this unrepentant cop-killer. The nominee’s efforts led to the overturning of the just sentence Abu-Jamal received for murdering a valuable member of the law enforcement community.

NAPO firmly believes Mr. Adegbile’s history makes him an inappropriate choice to lead DOJ’s Civil Rights Division, and we vehemently oppose this nomination. We urge you to reconsider the nomination, as Mr. Adegbile has not shown respect for members of law enforcement who put their lives on the line everyday to keep our nation safe.

National Narcotic Officers' Associations' Coalition

Our members, as well as many other law enforcement officers across the country, are angered and insulted by this nomination. His [Adegbile] proactive support for convicted cop killer Wesley Cook, AKA: Mumia Abu-Jamal, which included fabricating a baseless and unproven defense while also defaming the victims, Police Officer Daniel Faulkner, raises serious questions about your nominee's judgement, especially considering the important position to which he has been nominated.

Mumia Abu-Jamal was convicted of murdering Officer Faulkner, but with the help of Debo Adegbile, this case of murder was turned into a perverse case of assault against law enforcement, our constitution and our justice system. Such reprehensible conduct and poor decision making should disqualify anyone from being considered to lead the Civil Rights Division, for it is that person who will be responsible for ensuring that justice is fairly administered to all people, victims and defendants alike. The leader of the Civil Rights Division must be someone who has a record of bringing people together, not dividing and provoking them; someone who can be respectful and responsive to everyone, not just those whom they represent or support.



National Sheriffs' Association


We have serious concerns regarding Mr. Adegbile’s past leadership at the Legal Defense Fund (LDF) of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, specifically LDF’s controversial defense strategies in the representation of Mumia Abu-Jamal for the 1981 slaying of Philadelphia Police Office Daniel Faulkner.

Furthermore, the Administration has continued its pattern of ignoring the law enforcement community when considering issues that directly impact us. Notwithstanding pledges by Attorney General Eric Holder to be more open and transparent regarding Department of Justice decisions, neither NSA nor any other law enforcement organization of which we are aware was consulted regarding this nomination. It is tremendously disappointing that the Administration would continue to exclude a community that works each and every day to keep our citizens and our communities safe.

Accordingly, the National Sheriffs’ Association strongly opposes the nomination of Mr. Adegbile to lead the Civil Rights Division at the U.S. Department of Justice. Moreover, we again urge you to include the law enforcement community in the Administration’s deliberations regarding decisions at the Department of Justice.

New Jersey State Policemen's Benevolent Association

Mr. Adegbile's activism and defense of convicted cop killer Mumia Abu-Jamal makes him an inappropriate and offensive choice to join the office of the Attorney General in such a high profile and important position. Mumia Abu-Jamal murdered Philadelphia Police Officer Daniel Faulkner in 1982 (his conviction has been repeatedly upheld on appeal) and his horrific actions have left a scar on Philadelphia and the law enforcement community throughout New Hersey and the nation ever since. There are few cold blooded killers who yield as much disgust amongst law enforcement officers as Mumia Abu-Jamal and Mr. Adegbile's efforts to overturn his sentence disparages the memory of Officer Faulkner.

I don't agree with many of those organizations on other things either... Most of them are for much stricter gun regulations.....

All I'm saying is--If our Constitution and our way of law means anything- everyone, including cop shooters have the right to the best defense they can obtain- and just because an attorney does his job well- and gives them that does not immediately make him a bad person...
If you're butt was the one on trial- wouldn't you hope your attorney did everything he could to help you... :???:
 

hopalong

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You do not like any one who will not put their nose up your butt sukking up,,, Those associations are headed up by real lawman not some sheriff of a 6000 population county in no where usa ,,,named richard
 

Mike

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Oldtimer wrote:
All I'm saying is--If our Constitution and our way of law means anything- everyone, including cop shooters have the right to the best defense they can obtain- and just because an attorney does his job well- and gives them that does not immediately make him a bad person...

Concerning "Debo Adegbile & the Mumia Case", the above statement is too stupid for words. :roll:

Adegbile WAS NOT a "Criminal Defense" attorney for Mumia. Mumia was convicted 30 years ago (when Adegbile was 16 years old) and the subsequent conviction appeals were ALL unsuccessful.

Next time, try to learn a little about a subject before you start popping your fat mouth and defending someone you know little to nothing about.
 
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Mike said:
Oldtimer wrote:
All I'm saying is--If our Constitution and our way of law means anything- everyone, including cop shooters have the right to the best defense they can obtain- and just because an attorney does his job well- and gives them that does not immediately make him a bad person...

Concerning "Debo Adegbile & the Mumia Case", the above statement is too stupid for words. :roll:

Adegbile WAS NOT a "Criminal Defense" attorney for Mumia. Mumia was convicted 30 years ago (when Adegbile was 16 years old) and the subsequent conviction appeals were ALL unsuccessful.

Next time, try to learn a little about a subject before you start popping your fat mouth and defending someone you know little to nothing about.

New evidence comes up 30 years later... Hundreds of long imprisoned subjects have been released with all the new developments occurring with DNA... One in our part of the country is hot now... Google Barry Beach case....

I've never read about Adegbile or Mumia.... All I'm saying is that just because an attorney gives a person a strong defense-- even to the degree that they get someone you believe to be a guilty person off-- does not make that a bad attorney.... That is their job...

Now if that person is guilty and tells the attorney so- and the attorney still trys to use/allows an "alibi defense" and allows the suspect to lie to get them off than that is wrong-- the same as prosecuting attorneys that don't bring forth all exonerating evidence to the defense prior to trial....
 

Mike

Well-known member
Oldtimer said:
Mike said:
Oldtimer wrote:
All I'm saying is--If our Constitution and our way of law means anything- everyone, including cop shooters have the right to the best defense they can obtain- and just because an attorney does his job well- and gives them that does not immediately make him a bad person...

Concerning "Debo Adegbile & the Mumia Case", the above statement is too stupid for words. :roll:

Adegbile WAS NOT a "Criminal Defense" attorney for Mumia. Mumia was convicted 30 years ago (when Adegbile was 16 years old) and the subsequent conviction appeals were ALL unsuccessful.

Next time, try to learn a little about a subject before you start popping your fat mouth and defending someone you know little to nothing about.

New evidence comes up 30 years later... Hundreds of long imprisoned subjects have been released with all the new developments occurring with DNA... One in our part of the country is hot now... Google Barry Beach case....

I've never read about Adegbile or Mumia.... All I'm saying is that just because an attorney gives a person a strong defense-- even to the degree that they get someone you believe to be a guilty person off-- does not make that a bad attorney.... That is their job...

Now if that person is guilty and tells the attorney so- and the attorney still trys to use/allows an "alibi defense" and allows the suspect to lie to get them off than that is wrong-- the same as prosecuting attorneys that don't bring forth all exonerating evidence to the defense prior to trial....

"New Developments"? You still don't get it do you? :roll:
 

Steve

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On December 9, 1981, in Philadelphia, close to the intersection at 13th and Locust Streets, Philadelphia Police Department officer Daniel Faulkner conducted a traffic stop on a vehicle belonging to William Cook, Abu-Jamal's younger brother. During the traffic stop, Abu-Jamal's taxi was parked across the street, and Abu-Jamal ran across the street towards the traffic stop. At the traffic stop, there was an exchange of fire. Both Officer Faulkner and Abu-Jamal were wounded, and Faulkner died. Police arrived on the scene and arrested Abu-Jamal, who was found wearing a shoulder holster. A revolver, which had five spent cartridges, was beside him. He was taken directly from the scene of the shooting to Thomas Jefferson University Hospital, where he received treatment for his wound, the result of a shot from Faulkner.

The prosecution presented four witnesses to the court. Robert Chobert, a cab driver who testified he was parked behind Faulkner, identified Abu-Jamal as the shooter.[32] Cynthia White, a prostitute, testified that Abu-Jamal emerged from a nearby parking lot and shot Faulkner.[33] Michael Scanlan, a motorist, testified that from two car lengths away, he saw a man, matching Abu-Jamal's description, run across the street from a parking lot and shoot Faulkner.[34] Albert Magilton, a pedestrian who did not see the actual murder, testified to witnessing Faulkner pull over Cook's car. At the point of seeing Abu-Jamal start to cross the street toward them from the parking lot, Magilton turned away and lost sight of what happened next.[35]

The prosecution also presented two witnesses who were at the hospital after the altercation. Hospital security guard Priscilla Durham and police officer Garry Bell testified that Abu-Jamal confessed in the hospital by saying, "I shot the motherfucker, and I hope the motherfucker dies."[36]

A .38 caliber Charter Arms revolver, belonging to Abu-Jamal, with five spent cartridges was retrieved beside him at the scene. He was wearing a shoulder holster, and Anthony Paul, the Supervisor of the Philadelphia Police Department's firearms identification unit, testified at trial that the cartridge cases and rifling characteristics of the weapon were consistent with bullet fragments taken from Faulkner's body.

Abu-Jamal did not make any public statements about Faulkner's murder until May 2001. In his version of events, he claimed that he was sitting in his cab across the street when he heard shouting, then saw a police vehicle, then heard the sound of gunshots. Upon seeing his brother appearing disoriented across the street, Abu-Jamal ran to him from the parking lot and was shot by a police officer.[71] The driver originally stopped by police officer Faulkner, Abu-Jamal's brother William Cook, did not testify or make any statement until April 29, 2001, when he claimed that he had not seen who had shot Faulkner

Going on trial in 1982, he initially decided to represent himself, but was repeatedly reprimanded for disruptive behavior and given a court-appointed lawyer. Three witnesses testified that they had witnessed Abu-Jamal commit the murder, and he was unanimously convicted by jury and sentenced to death, spending the next 30 years on death row. In 2008, a three-judge panel of the U.S. Third Circuit Court of Appeals upheld the murder conviction but ordered a new capital sentencing hearing because the jury was improperly instructed.[8] Subsequently, the United States Supreme Court also allowed his conviction to stand

so far all the courts have allowed the conviction to stand.. only dis-allowing the death penalty on a technicality..

30 years of trials.. 30 years of manipulating the courts ..

and in the end wesley cook is still looked at as a hero by many liberals..


a former prison volunteer saying that the journalist and death row prisoner told him years ago that he regretted killing a police officer in 1981. Abu Jamal has always maintained his innocence.

Philip Bloch, who visited Abu Jamal through his work with the organization Pennsylvania Prison Society, told Vanity Fair reporter Buzz Bissinger that in one of his conversations, he asked Abu Jamal whether he regretted having killed officer Daniel Faulkner, and received a one-word answer: "yes."

He said that he came forward because of his "disgust" with the tactics of those who believe Abu Jamal was wrongly convicted. Bloch had access to Abu Jamal after he became a volunteer with the Pennsylvania Prison Society, a group that has been working on prison issues for over 200 years.

http://www.danielfaulkner.com/original/indexmyth17.html

My bet,.. in the later part of Obama's term he will pardon this thug.. and the thug will write a book on how he shot the officer..
 

Steve

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FACT

Jamal was apprehended only 10 feet away from Officer Faulkner's body. In his chest, Jamal had a bullet fired from Officer Faulkner's gun. If the officer was shot by a "phantom killer," as Jamal's lawyers contend, he would have shot the gunman, not Jamal. The eyewitnesses all said that Jamal shot the officer in the back before the officer even knew Jamal was there.

FACT

The gun found next to Jamal was owned by Jamal and registered in his name. Does an "innocent man" run to the scene of an arrest with his gun in his hand if he doesn't intend to use it?

FACT

Jamal's gun contained five spent casings from unique high velocity special +P ammunition. These casings were the exact brand (Federal), caliber (.38) and type (high velocity +P with a hollow base) of ammunition retrieved from Officer Faulkner's brain. Is it reasonable to believe that an "innocent man" just happened to load his gun with exact same ammunition that the "real killer" used in his gun?

FACT

The rifling characteristics of the bullet removed from Officer Faulkner's brain showed that it was fired from a barrel with 8 lands and grooves and a right hand direction of twist. This is identical to the rifling characteristics of the barrel of Jamal's gun. Is it a coincidence that an "innocent man" just happened to load his gun with the same unique ammunition as the "real killer" AND have the same riffling pattern in the barrel of his gun as the "real killer"?

FACT

Jamal's brother, William Cook, saw the murder unfold. When police arrived at the scene -- less than one minute after the shooting -- they found Cook against a wall a few feet away from the dead officer's body. Cook's only comment was, "I ain't got nothin to do with this."

Cook is the only known eyewitness (other than Jamal himself) who has never testified to what he saw. He has never so much as suggested that his brother might be innocent.

http://www.danielfaulkner.com/original/indexmyth17.html

you can look at the facts.. or believe the twisted lies of the lawyers who wanted to free this man only because of his race.. not because of his innocence .. but his race..
 
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