The American Judicial System

Sometimes, it's almost like the self-professed "patriots" and worshipers of the American Constitution don't actually understand how the system works.

Remember Debo Adebgile, Obama's nominee for Assistant Attorney General? A little over a month ago, the idiots that be in Congress, responding to fearmongering "reporting" on Faux (Fox) News for reasons beyond my understanding, decided that it was a Major Scandal that Adebgile represented bad guys in court:

The Senate voted 47-52 Wednesday to reject controversial nominee Debo Adegbile as an assistant attorney general.

 

Seven Democrats voted against moving forward with President Obama’s nomination of Adegbile, which the Fraternal Order of Police and other groups opposed because of his involvement in the defense of Mumia Abu-Jamal, who was convicted of killing a Philadelphia police officer in 1981.

 Source: http://thehill.com/blogs/floor-action/senate/199979-senate-rejects-obama-nominee-who-defended-convicted-cop-killer

Never mind that John Adams himself represented a British soldier in the wake of the Boston Massacre, an act he later called "one of the most gallant, generous, manly, and disinterested actions of my whole life, and one of the best pieces of service I ever rendered my country" (Source). Never mind also that the Constitution specifically requires that everyone - regardless of their crime(s) - receive a speedy, fair and impartial trial with legal counsel.

No....Adebgile was a "brown" who represented one of "them" in a court trial. Therefore, he's guilty by association.

They say that they're not racists - that in fact, liberals overuse the so-called "race card" to quash debate. But when you're this willfully dense about the American judicial system, and it involves a black man with a funny name, it tends to make you look like a reactionary bigot.