While at the NAACP, Adegbile authored a brief to strip members of the Hosanna Tabor Evangelical Lutheran Church of the right to practice their faith and appoint ministers of the church as they saw fit. Adegbile argued to the Supreme Court that Christian churches shouldn’t continue to enjoy the same constitutional protections of the “ministerial exception” as churches had for centuries. He argued that the government should have a say in church theology and who could be a minister of a Christian church.
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While at the NAACP, Adegbile fought against school discipline. He argued that more black children were being disciplined compared to their percentage in the population, so naturally school discipline must be racially discriminatory. At the Justice Department, if he is confirmed, expect him to litigate this nutty idea using the heavy boot of the federal government.If Adegbile is confirmed, schools will be afraid to punish unruly children and more students who need order in their lives will experience chaos.
Adegbile has also fought to keep a woman out law school because she is white. Abigail Fisher was denied admission to the University of Texas simply because she is white, and Debo Adegbile has worked hard at the NAACP to keep her out. He has filed legal briefs with the Supreme Court and managed a nationwide litigation campaign to support racial discrimination in education.
And the NAACP Legal Defense Fund's taking on of Mumia's case wasn't just about a law practice dispassionately taking on a client. They were out to make political hay out of it:
Adegbile and his NAACP raised money off of the leftist murderer’s celebrity. Adegbile and the NAACP did more than represent the murderer in court, they allied with his racial grievances.
This is an ideal moment to thwart Holder's evil designs.
UPDATE: Senate gives Adegbile a big thumbs-down.
Clearly the argument that lawyers should (and of course they should) be able to defend anyone they chose, since everyone who is charged deserves a defense, especially if it involves a death sentence, not at all uncontroversial itself. But the cops won the day, so let's move on. They just started a black news channel to be operated out of Tallahassee. In this town and all over the country that racial issues have been making progress since Obama was elected. In fact, it seems to have gotten worse.
ReplyDeleteA vote is a vote so no what's his name. So what, I never cared much one way or the other, but if I was a lawyer with political ambitions I would sadly need to reflect on who I represent.
One would hope that you, or any one theoretically entering that profession, would, and that sound judgement would prevent someone from taking on as a client a self-proclaimed cop killer and proud radical.
ReplyDeleteEvery death penalty verdict deserves a defense whether they are guilty or not and whether they killed a cop or not. Cops and blacks don't really mix well together, it's easily verifiable. What I know about law is likely a dangerous thing but what you don't know floors me. Are you going to infer a client's guilt to their counsel?
ReplyDeleteNo, but I'm not going to ignore that the NAACP publicly said it was an "honor" tp take this case, and Adegbile and his colleagues basically went out and stumped for this guy. Listen, why are you willfully neglecting to peice this together: a president with the MEC's track record, an AG with Holder's track record, and an attorney / race-card activist with Adegbile's track record. Surely you don't look at the sum total of that and conclude "I see nothing of consequence there."
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