Controversial DOJ nominee fails to clear Senate test vote

Senate Democrats failed to muster enough support to push a controversial Justice Department nominee past a key test vote on Wednesday, leaving the nomination stalled amid bipartisan concerns about his past work on behalf of convicted cop killer Mumia Abu-Jamal. ✧ The nomination of Debo Adegbile for head of the Civil Rights Division was blocked, on a 47-52 vote. ✧ Maureen Faulkner, widow of the Philadelphia officer killed by Abu-Jamal, told Fox News after the vote that Adegbile was "the wrong person for the job." She thanked Democratic senators who "broke ranks and had the courage to do the right thing."

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