He was unfairly rejected

Philadelphia Media Network ^ | 03-06-2014 | John Featherman

[PaulCruz2016]

Let me summarize about the man who was nominated by the President of the United States for a prestigious judicial position.

He was born in New York State.

He is of mixed ancestry.

He attended a prestigious law school.

He’s married and has two children.

He’s been called one of the best litigators of his generation.

He represented a death row inmate convicted for murder.

He defended a very unpopular killer and made a lot of enemies for doing so – many who swore they would ruin his career.

So when the vote came up to confirm him, senators from the President’s opposition party made it clear that they were deeply troubled and going to block the nomination.

Now, be honest. You think I’m talking about Debo Adegbile – Obama’s nominee to head the Civil Rights division of the Justice Department, right?

Well, every single word up there described him.

But I wasn’t talking about Adegbile.

Sorry to break the news to our two Pennsylvania senators that voted against Adegbile, but I was talking about someone else - Supreme Court Justice John Roberts.

What?

Yep.

Thanks to a tip from my colleague, Philly.com writer Sam Wood, I learned that back when John Roberts was just an ordinary lawyer like Debo Adegbile, he represented Florida death row inmate John Ferguson, convicted in the murder of not one … not two … not three … but, eight, yes, eight people.

Makes Adegbile's involvement look like chump change to me.

Roberts defended Ferguson pro bono when he was working in private practice.

[Liz]

Roberts was retained to "represent" a client who happened to be a murderer. There are very few instances when lawyers can refuse to represent someone.

Off hand, I know of only one---Charles Stuart, Boston, who murdered his pregnant wife and blamed it on a Black man. He could not get a lawyer to represent him----the visceral disdain for his actions reached epidemic proportions.

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What Adegbile did in the Mumia cop-killer case was far different. Adegbile personally aligned himself w/ the cop killer.....he joined the radical leftwing propaganda campaign and publicly praised Mumia to the heavens.

Adegbile was an avowed political partisan; it was doubtful he could objectively enforce US law and enforce civil rights laws on a colorblind basis.

Good riddance Adegbile, we don't need our civil rights defended by a leftist lowlife.

[Minutemen]

Irish-Itallian, English-Sudanese....German-Polish
Jeez, aren’t we all of “mixed” ancestry?