Adegbile claimed in testimony before the Senate committee last month that he "had no direct role" in the three briefs filed in Mumia Abu-Jamal's successful effort to overturn his death penalty conviction for killing Philly police officer Daniel Faulkner in 1981. The officer's widow disagrees, saying Adegbile took a "personal interest" not only in getting Abu-Jamal off death row, but in the unsuccessful effort to get him out of prison.
Making such a nomination is just another indicator of the Great Pretender's complete lack of feeling or intellect for what he is doing to this country. His nominations grow ever more Marxist in nature, and he seems headed down the road to driving this country into a social-Marxist mindset, at least among the elitist rulers with whom he surrounds himself.