Democrats Joe Manchin (WV), Chris Coons (DE), Bob Casey (PA), Mark Pryor (AR), Heidi Heitkamp (ND), Joe Donnelly (IN), and John Walsh (MT) voted against President Obama’s nominee to head the Civil Rights Division of the Justice Department, Debo Adegbile, because he had represented Mumia Abu-Jamal in his successful effort to avoid a death sentence.
The always reasonable Air Force lawyer, Sen. Lindsey Graham of South Carolina, had this to say about the development:
Sen. Lindsay Graham, (R-S.C.), who voted against Adegbile, said the vote was about Adegbile’s behavior, not his race. “When someone has a history of helping cop-killers, this is what happens,” Graham said in an interview.
I guess that’s true.
