National Review: “Adegbile is a passionate advocate for racial quotas in hiring and university admissions, and also urges that employers not be permitted to do background checks on potential hires — presumably because more African Americans have criminal records than other applicants. He has encouraged the president to nominate judges who recognize that “ratified treaties” are the law of the land. Well, no argument there, but he goes further. Adegbile wants judges who will decree that “customary international law” is the law of the United States as well, asking for God only knows what mischief. Who would decide what “customary international law” is? By what authority would it be imposed on Americans? Investor’s Business Daily reports that Adegbile supports George Soros’s campaign to create a new “progressive” constitution. If that doesn’t make the hair on the back of your neck stand up, you’re not paying attention. 

It was Adegbile’s role in the case of convicted cop killer Mumia Abu Jamal that incurred the wrath of Justice Department employees, though. The union representing FBI agents, which rarely expresses itself on nominations, along with the Fraternal Order of Police and other law-enforcement groups, have written to Attorney General Eric Holder to protest Adegbile’s nomination.”