The day before President Obama’s
last press conference of the year,
the White House quietly announced his presidential appointments of Dego
Adegbile and Catherine Lhamon to six-year terms on the U.S. Civil
Rights Commission. Both appointments are aggressive moves for a
president on his way out the door.
Obama previously nominated Adegbile to head the Department of
Justice’s Civil Rights Division, but a bipartisan group of senators
blocked the nomination in 2014 due to Adegbile’s defense of convicted cop killer Mumia Abu-Jamal.
Adegbile’s appointment, which will not require congressional approval, left pro-police groups crying foul.
John McNesby, president of the Philadelphia chapter of the Fraternal Order of Police,
called the appointment a “kick in the teeth to the cops.” ...
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