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Senate Rejects Obama Nominee for Civil Rights Post

In a bipartisan vote, the Senate on Wednesday blocked President Obama’s controversial pick to head the Department of Justice’s civil rights division. It was the first defeat for the administration and Harry Reid under new rules pushed by the Senate majority leader last year requiring a simple majority vote on executive nominations.

Vice President Joe Biden was called to the Capitol ahead of what was expected to be a close vote in order to preside over the Senate and cast a tie-breaking ballot if necessary. Ultimately it wasn’t. Seven Democrats joined all Republicans in opposing Debo Adegbile’s confirmation, 52-47. (Reid switched his vote to no in a procedural move that allows him to bring the nomination back up again.)

 The nomination had highly charged political implications. At issue was Adegbile’s past tenure as director of the NAACP’s Legal Defense Fund, which worked on behalf of Mumia Abu-Jamal, who was convicted in 1981 of killing Philadelphia police officer Daniel Faulkner. Abu-Jamal’s death sentence — though not his conviction — was eventually overturned.

Adegible’s nomination was opposed by the Fraternal Order of Police and the National Association of Police Organizations, which said the nominee “worked tirelessly to free this unrepentant cop-killer.”

Opposition garnered bipartisan support. Both of Pennsylvania’s senators, Democrat Bob Casey and Republican Pat Toomey, voted against the nomination.

“I respect that our system of law ensures the right of all citizens to legal representation no matter how heinous the crime. At the same time, it is important that we ensure that Pennsylvanians and citizens across the country have full confidence in their public representatives — both elected and appointed,” Casey said in a statement. “The vicious murder of Officer Faulkner in the line of duty and the events that followed in the 30 years since his death have left open wounds for Maureen Faulkner and her family as well as the City of Philadelphia.”

Delaware Sen. Chris Coons described his “no” vote as one of the most difficult he’s taken. He noted that, as a lawyer, he sympathized with the importance of legal advocacy, but said his decision was more about respecting the family’s concerns than about the nominee’s qualifications.

In a statement, the president called the rejection of Adegbile a “travesty based on wildly unfair character attacks against a good and qualified public servant.” He added that “the fact that his nomination was defeated solely based on his legal representation of a defendant runs contrary to a fundamental principle of our system of justice — and those who voted against his nomination denied the American people an outstanding public servant.” 

Also in a statement, Attorney General Eric Holder expressed disappointment that Senate failed to confirm a “uniquely qualified nominee and an exceptional lawyer. He deserved to have his nomination considered wholly on the merits. His record was either misunderstood, or intentionally misrepresented for the sake of politics.” 

Senate Judiciary Chairman Pat Leahy delivered a passionate defense of Adegible on the floor before the vote, citing the nominee’s expertise as head of the civil rights organization founded by Thurgood Marshall, and noting that the Legal Defense Fund took up the Abu-Jamal case before Adegible became its director.

“You listen to [Republicans] or you listen to Fox News, you might think the nominee himself is a criminal. Of course he’s not,” Leahy said. “Attacks launched against this nominee demonstrate a fundamental misunderstanding of the role of a lawyer and the path all police officers swear to serve and protect.”

Still, arguments made by Leahy, Reid, and Whip Dick Durbin were not enough to persuade the requisite number of Democrats. In addition to Casey and Coons, Sens. Heidi Heitkamp, Joe Manchin, Joe Donnelly, Mark Pryor, and John Walsh voted against the nomination.

Wednesday’s vote marked the first rejection of a White House nominee since Reid and Senate Democrats agreed in November to lower the threshold for filibusters on executive nominations from the traditional 60 to 51, after being frustrated by Republican efforts to block the president’s picks.  

RCP White House correspondent Alexis Simendinger contributed to this report.

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The Oscar Nominee Interviews: 2014 Picks Include "Dirty Wars," "The Act of Killing" & "The Square"

The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences has announced the five films nominated for the Documentary Feature Oscar. A record 147 films had originally qualified in the category. Watch our interviews with three of the filmmakers who were nominated, and see all of our Oscar-related coverage over the years.

Dirty Wars: Jeremy Scahill and Rick Rowley’s New Film Exposes Hidden Truths of Covert U.S. Warfare

We interview investigative reporter Jeremy Scahill and filmmaker Rick Rowley when “Dirty Wars: The World Is a Battlefield” premiered at the Sundance Film Festival in Utah. “One of the things that humbles both of us is that when you arrive in a village in Afghanistan and knock on someone’s door, you’re the first American they’ve seen since the Americans that kicked that door in and killed half their family,” Rowley says. “We promised them that we would do everything we could to make their stories be heard in the U.S. … Finally we’re able to keep those promises.”

"The Act of Killing": New Film Shows U.S.-Backed Indonesian Death Squad Leaders Re-enacting Massacres

We spend the hour with Joshua Oppenheimer, the director of the groundbreaking documentary called “The Act of Killing.” The film is set in Indonesia, where, beginning in 1965, military and paramilitary forces slaughtered up to a million Indonesians after overthrowing the democratically elected government. That military was backed by the United States and led by General Suharto, who would rule Indonesia for decades. There has been no truth and reconciliation commission, nor have any of the murderers been brought to justice. As the film reveals, Indonesia is a country where the killers are to this day celebrated as heroes by many. Oppenheimer spent more than eight years interviewing the Indonesian death squad leaders, and in “The Act of Killing,” he works with them to re-enact the real-life killings in the style of American movies in which the men love to watch — this includes classic Hollywood gangster movies and lavish musical numbers. A key figure he follows is Anwar Congo, who killed hundreds, if not a thousand people with his own hands and is now revered as a founding father of an active right-wing paramilitary organization. We also ask Oppenheimer to discusses the film’s impact in Indonesia, where he screened it for survivors and journalists who have launched new investigations into the massacres. The film is co-directed by Christine Cynn and an Indonesian co-director who remains anonymous for fear of retribution, as does much of the Indonesian film crew.

"The Square": Jehane Noujaim’s New Film Captures Egypt’s Ongoing Revolution After Mubarak’s Fall

As Egyptians marked the second anniversary of the Egyptian revolution, we looked at the new documentary that captures the ongoing protest movement in Egypt well after the downfall of Hosni Mubarak. “The Square” follows a group of activists as they risk their lives in the uprising that ousted Mubarak only to face further threats under the transitional military regime. We’re joined by the film’s Egyptian-American director, Jehane Noujaim, at the Sundance Film Festival in Park City, Utah. Noujaim’s previous work includes the famed Al Jazeera documentary, “Control Room.”

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Obama’s IRS Nominee Promises to Restore Faith in Taxation Enforcement Agency

Obama and Senate work together to save government’s confiscatory agency

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December 10, 2013

Obama has selected John Koskinen to head up the scandal-ridden Internal Revenue Service. Koskinen, who warms a seat on the board of American Capital and has experience running a government soccer foundation, told the Senate Finance Committee today he will restore faith in the IRS.

“In every area of the IRS, taxpayers need to be confident that they will be treated fairly no matter what their backgrounds or their affiliations,” Koskinen said. “Public trust is the IRS’ most important and valuable asset.”

Acting IRS boss Danny Werfel gets grilled: Government desperate to get its major confiscatory agency out of the crosshairs.

Trust is not an asset for the IRS. Fear is. Most Americans dutifully submit bureaucratic paperwork on April 15 out of fear, not a sense of obligation or duty to government.

Since Obama was chosen to read a teleprompter and robosign legislation for the global elite, the IRS has been increasingly put to the test as a political weapon. It was used in the past by other presidents to persecute political opponents, but the agency was switched into overdrive after the appointment of Barry Obama, the CIA groomed front man for the ruling elite.

Due to partisan politics and revelations of over-the-top targeting of tea party organizations by the agency, acting IRS Commissioner Steven Miller was forced to step down in May after the Treasury Inspector General for tax administration released an audit accusing the agency of illegally targeting political groups opposed to Obama. Obama’s handpicked temp, Danny Werfel, will step aside if Mr. Koskinen gets the nod.

It looks like Koskinen is a shoo-in. The chairman of the Finance Committee, Montana Senator Max Baucus, and Utah Senator Orrin Hatch, who is top dog on the committee, said they back the bankster minion Koskinen. It looks like he will be ushered in with no serious opposition and will rule the IRS for the next five years.

Koskinen said he will work with the committee to resolve any issues regarding the targeting of tea party and conservative groups, according to the Washington Times. Since Koskinen is an Obama political pick, however, it is not clear what sort of reform will occur at the agency.

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Mark Levin: Republican Nominee In 2016 Doesn"t Need "Executive Experience"

MARK LEVIN: Lincoln is considered our greatest, if not our second greatest president by most. He was never a governor. He was never a senator. He was an extraordinary man, and he was a public man, and people knew much about him. The Lincoln-Douglas debates — and those weren’t the only debates! He gave some magnificent speeches too. But again, all that aside. My point is to categorize and say we have to have a person who’s served as governor because they make executive decisions. Okay great.

And that’ll be the strength of that candidate, should that candidate run. But thats not the test. The test is to get the right person. And the right person will make mostly the right decisions. Take a measure of the person. So if you have somebody who has been a governor, or just a garden variety Republican. Whether they’re a big-government Republican or a RINO. I don’t care if they’ve been a governor or not. I’m not interested. They have to come to the office or seek the office with a certain set of a principles and value that we share. Someone who is intelligent, confident, and articulate and knowledgeable, and has a capacity for the office. They’ve been governor, great. If they haven’t, fine.

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VIDEO: Senate votes in historic rule change

After Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid proposed a change, the Senate struck down traditional filibuster rules for most presidential nominations.

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VIDEO: McConnell frames rule change as distraction from Obamacare

Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell accused Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid Thursday of “trying to change the subject” with a proposed rule change.

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Treasury nominee says bank regulations won"t work for insurance firms

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Obama To 6-Foot-8 FBI Nominee: Your Family Is What Michelle Calls "Normal Height"

At a Friday afternoon ceremony for President Obama’s nominee to head the FBI James Comey, the president joked Comey, who is 6-foot-8, is what “Michelle calls normal height.”

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