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Senate rejects cop-killer defender for DOJ post

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Senate Democrats failed to muster enough support to push a controversial Justice Department nominee past a key test vote on Wednesday, leaving the nomination stalled amid bipartisan concerns about his past work on behalf of convicted cop killer Mumia Abu-Jamal.

The nomination of Debo Adegbile for head of the Civil Rights Division was blocked, on a 47-52 vote.

Adegbile needed just 51 senators to support him in order to advance to a final vote. In anticipation of a tight vote, Vice President Biden even attended in case he was needed by his Democratic colleagues to break a tie. But it did not get to that point, as a total of seven Democrats peeled off, joining a nearly united Republican opposition.
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Even with Reid's nuclear option firmly entrenched as Senate policy, they couldn't get this champion for a cop-killer approved for DOJ. Could there be some hope, after all?
 
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