{"id":39100,"date":"2014-03-06T10:59:02","date_gmt":"2014-03-06T17:59:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/?p=39100"},"modified":"2014-03-06T10:59:02","modified_gmt":"2014-03-06T17:59:02","slug":"gop-reveals-double-standards-on-debo-adegbile-nomination","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/2014\/03\/06\/gop-reveals-double-standards-on-debo-adegbile-nomination\/","title":{"rendered":"GOP Reveals Double Standards on Debo Adegbile Nomination"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><ul class=\"inline-playlist playlist\" title=\"\"><li><a href=\"http:\/\/archive.org\/download\/20140306Uprising\/2014_03_06_washington.mp3\">Listen to this segment with Linn Washington <\/a><\/li><\/ul><ul class=\"inline-playlist playlist\" title=\"\"><li><a href=\"http:\/\/archive.org\/download\/20140306Uprising\/2014_03_06_uprising.mp3\">Listen to the entire program<\/a><\/li><\/ul><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" align=right width=50% src=\"\/home\/graphics\/debo_adegbile.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/>A test vote in the Senate to confirm President Obama&#8217;s nominee to head the Civil Rights Division of the Justice Department, failed yesterday by a vote of 47 to 52. Seven Democrats joined Republicans to vote against Debo Adegbile, a senior counsel with the Senate Judiciary Committee, who had previously worked for the NAACP&#8217;s Legal Defense Fund. <\/p>\n<p>Republicans launched a smear campaign against Adegbile saying that he had defended the controversial Black Panther, Mumia Abu Jamal, who is serving a sentence for the murder of Philadelphia police officer Daniel Faulkner, and that that defense made him unfit to head the Civil Rights Division. <\/p>\n<p>The Fraternal Order of Police and Faulkner&#8217;s widow, Maureen Faulkner, issued statements strongly opposing the confirmation. But President Obama shot back saying, it was &#8220;a travesty based on wildly unfair character attacks against a good and qualified public servant.&#8221; <\/p>\n<p>This is the first time that one of Obama&#8217;s nominees has been rejected since the Senate changed its rules last November to require only a simple majority on Presidential and non-Supreme Court judicial nominations. While yesterday&#8217;s vote was only a test count, it does put Adegbile&#8217;s nomination into jeopardy. Democratic Senator Harry Reid voted no at the last minute in order to be able to bring him up for a vote again in the future. <\/p>\n<p><em>GUEST: Linn Washington, a columnist for the Philadelphia Tribune and a professor at Temple University. He worked alongside Mumia Abu-Jamal as a journalist in Philadelphia in the 70s and early 80s and wrote the book Black Judges on Justice: Perspectives from the Bench. <\/em><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/thiscantbehappening.net\/node\/2173\">Click here<\/a> to read Linn Washington&#8217;s article about Adegbile. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A test vote in the Senate to confirm President Obama&#8217;s nominee to head the Civil Rights Division of the Justice Department, failed yesterday by a vote of 47 to 52. Seven Democrats joined Republicans to vote against Debo Adegbile, a senior counsel with the Senate Judiciary Committee, who had previously worked for the NAACP&#8217;s Legal [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-39100","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-daily-program"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39100","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=39100"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39100\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":39113,"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39100\/revisions\/39113"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=39100"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=39100"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=39100"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}