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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsSickening and stupid: Democrats in U.S. Senate block Obama civil rights lawyer
Also, the gleeful way in which this article was penned, is shameful. Note that the "reporter" refers to Democratic Senators as "President Obama democrats".
Several of President Barack Obama's Democrats in the U.S. Senate joined Republicans on Wednesday to block his nominee to a top Justice Department job after complaints that the lawyer, Debo Adegbile, had once helped represent a convicted "cop killer."
Adegbile, a former director at the Legal Defense Fund of the civil rights group NAACP, had been nominated to head the Justice Department's civil rights division.
Seven Democrats joined Republicans in the procedural vote blocking the nomination. Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid eventually joined them in a maneuver to preserve his right to bring up the nomination again.
The final vote was 47-52, with 51 votes needed for the nomination to proceed.
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http://www.reuters.com/article/2014/03/05/us-usa-senate-nominee-idUSBREA241T320140305
Nye Bevan
(25,406 posts)And that Democratic Senators would engage in this is absolutely contemptible.
rhett o rick
(55,981 posts)Do we have names somewheres?
Blue_Tires
(55,445 posts)when the nomination comes up again...
What a bunch of cowards...
cali
(114,904 posts)samplegirl
(11,502 posts)step up and doing something good just once??? Why should we or even they call themselves Democrats?
11 Bravo
(23,926 posts)rhett o rick
(55,981 posts)have to vote the way their sponsors want. With the filbuster, they didnt have to worry.