LA Times has the opening statements.

“What makes Bosserman’s selection doubly odd is that she doesn’t even work in the Public Integrity Section of the Criminal Division, which is responsible for investigating and prosecuting public corruption. Rather, she’s a lawyer in the Civil Rights Division, the most politicized division within the entire Justice Department. It’s certainly possible that the IRS practices under investigation may be civil-rights violations, but it’s curious that Attorney General Holder chose to dip into that talent pool for this particular lawyer to lead this investigation, rather than tap someone from the Public Integrity Section.”





Full story here.

NPR audio.

Investor’s Link:

“Appearing Wednesday on Fox News’ “The Kelly File,” Maureen Faulkner said that Obama’s nomination of such a person to a top position at the Justice Department “is like spitting on all our officers and our federal agents throughout America.” Indeed it is.

Former DOJ official J. Christian Adams, who quit over the New Black Panther travesty, told Megyn Kelly Wednesday that “to defend a cop killer — by choice — should disqualify you from a position at the Justice Department.”

I will be joining Fox and Friends Saturday to discuss the Debo Adegbile nomination to the Justice Department.  Sometime in 7am hour.

Mary Kissel’s Political Diary:

“It’s hard to find a lawyer who could do more damage to the Justice Department’s civil-rights division than former chief Tom Perez—who wielded race as a political weapon, interfered with the Supreme Court’s docket to protect his discrimination agenda from legal review, and snubbed a House subpoena before taking the job as Labor Secretary—until you consider the record of the man the president nominated to replace him, Debo Adegbile. . . .

Mr. Adegbile also apparently believes American blacks still endure Jim Crow-era racism. Last year he argued before the Supreme Court to preserve sections of the 1965 Voting Rights Act used by Justice to override voting laws in certain southern states. He lost. In a separate case contesting race-based college admissions policies, former Justice attorney J. Christian Adams notes Mr. Adegbile argued that (as Mr. Adams put it) “a white applicant was properly denied admission to the University of Texas Law School because she was white.”

No wonder the left is cheering the nomination. “He is just so incredibly suited for this position,” the Legal Defense Fund’s Leslie M. Proll told the Washington Post earlier this month. Given how much the Obama administration has politicized law enforcement, she’s right. “

This is unfortunate to see.  The NAACP did great work 50 years ago ending segregation.  I didn’t think they’d ever end up here.