It turns out there's more to the Debo Adegbile rejection than just the cop killer story. I always learn important things when I watch the MSNBC news show of Chris Hayes.
The focus of the opposition was on the meme of "coddling cop killer." Fox News had been hammering on this for a month, with commentators denouncing Debo with name-calling; even, as Chris pointed out, frequently talking about Debo the civil rights lawyer but showing pictures of the convicted man in prison -- so that the impression came to be that Debo was this thug in prison -- instead of the best civil rights lawyer in the country, the one who could legitimately be called this generation's Thurgood Marshall.
The cop-killer meme was the emotional tactic to defeat the nomination. But the real motive was to prevent such an effective man from occupying the Civil Rights office in the Department of Justice.
Why? Since the Supreme Court gutted the provision of the Civil Rights Act, instead of automatic prescreening of changes in voting laws in certain states, it requires a very aggressive DoJ to take the states to court. It's part of the Republican plan to suppress the vote. Pass these restrictive laws and then prevent the nomination of an effect person to oversee the division that would go after those laws in court.
It's all about suppressing the vote. Painting Adegbile as a cop-killer coddler was the dirty trick tactic of poisoning his name so he would be rejected. And underneath it all is the dirty secret that Republicans know they cannot win unless they convince the voters that black is white, and suppress the vote any way they can, and pour obscene amounts of money from wealthy donors into negative tv ads.
The DoJ needs Debo Adegbile. The American people need Debo Adegbile. Democracy needs Debo Adegbile. We cannot afford to let such uniquely qualified people be rejected for such base reasons. It is about race. And it is about political dirty tricks.
Ralph
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