{"id":13963,"date":"2013-12-05T04:14:00","date_gmt":"2013-12-05T04:14:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.commoncause.org\/articles\/voters-lose-as-senate-rejects-obamas-civil-rights-nominee\/"},"modified":"2013-12-05T04:14:00","modified_gmt":"2013-12-05T04:14:00","slug":"wahler-verlieren-als-senat-obamas-burgerrechtskandidaten-ablehnt","status":"publish","type":"article","link":"https:\/\/www.commoncause.org\/de\/articles\/voters-lose-as-senate-rejects-obamas-civil-rights-nominee\/","title":{"rendered":"W\u00e4hler verlieren, als Senat Obamas B\u00fcrgerrechtskandidaten ablehnt"},"template":"","class_list":["post-13963","article","type-article","status-publish","hentry","article_type-blog-post"],"acf":{"details":{"summary":"","featured_image":null,"article_type":1103,"authors":["{\"site_id\":\"1\",\"post_type\":\"person\",\"post_id\":8577}"],"related_issues":false,"related_work":false,"location":null},"sidebar":{"helper_enable_sidebar":false,"helper_media_contact":{"heading":"Media Contact","manually_enter_person":false,"person":null,"name":"","role":"","phone":"","email":""},"helper_links_downloads":{"heading":"Links & Downloads","links":null}},"page_layout":[{"acf_fc_layout":"layout_wysiwyg","_acfe_flexible_toggle":null,"component_wysiwyg":{"content":"<p>Debo Adegbile, nach allen Berichten ein blitzgescheiter Anwalt und Rechtsgelehrter von tadelloser Integrit\u00e4t, verlor am Mittwoch seine Bewerbung um die Best\u00e4tigung des Senats f\u00fcr das Amt des Leiters der B\u00fcrgerrechtsabteilung im Justizministerium.<\/p><p>The 45-52 vote was cast in news accounts as an embarrassing defeat for President Obama, who saw seven Democratic senators join with the Republican minority to block Adegbile's confirmation.<\/p><p>Die wahren Verlierer k\u00f6nnten jedoch die amerikanischen W\u00e4hler sein. W\u00e4hrend die Parlamentarier in weiten Teilen des Landes \u00fcber neue Wahlrechtsbeschr\u00e4nkungen nachdenken, w\u00e4hrend wir uns auf eine hart umk\u00e4mpfte Kongresswahl zubewegen, braucht das Justizministerium dringend eine starke F\u00fchrung in seiner B\u00fcrgerrechtsabteilung. Die dortigen Anw\u00e4lte sollten eine entscheidende erste Verteidigungslinie gegen die Welle von W\u00e4hlerausweisgesetzen bilden, die es Zehntausenden von Collegestudenten, \u00e4lteren und gebrechlichen Menschen erschweren w\u00fcrden, ihre Stimme abzugeben.<\/p><p>In the right hands, the civil rights division also could provide the administration with a splendid platform to make its case for action in Congress to overhaul the Voting Rights Act and undo damage done by last summer's Supreme Court ruling weakening that law's \"pre-clearance provisions.<\/p><p>Angesichts der Schneckengeschwindigkeit, mit der derzeit auf dem Capitol Hill gearbeitet wird, wird es wahrscheinlich Wochen und vielleicht Monate dauern, bis die Regierung einen neuen Kandidaten gefunden und gepr\u00fcft hat. Der Senat wird wahrscheinlich sogar noch mehr Zeit f\u00fcr die Anh\u00f6rungen und Abstimmungen der Aussch\u00fcsse \u00fcber Obamas Kandidaten ben\u00f6tigen. Fazit: Der neue oberste Polizist, der unsere B\u00fcrgerrechtsgesetze durchsetzen soll, wird wahrscheinlich nicht fr\u00fch genug auf Streife gehen, um die W\u00e4hler vor dem Wahltag zu sch\u00fctzen.<\/p><p>All that's bad enough. But there's another unsettling dimension to this story. Critics of Adegbile's nomination did not challenge his legal or ethical qualifications. Their stated objections revolved around the small part he played 30-plus years ago in the legal defense of a man ultimately convicted of murdering a Philadelphia police officer.<\/p><p>To go after a lawyer on such grounds is to attack a principle at the heart of our legal system: that every person charged with a crime -- no matter how heinous -- is entitled to vigorous representation.<\/p><p>No less a legal icon than Chief Justice John Roberts, a law-and-order conservative if I've ever seen one, has stood up for that principle. Before going on the bench, Roberts was involved in the defense of a Florida man now on death row for murdering eight people. No one suggested that made him unfit to serve.<\/p><p>Now, with Adegbile, a different standard of review may be taking hold, with ominous implications for American justice. If we start disqualifying from government service every lawyer who has represented a guilty client or stood up in court for an unpopular cause, the quality of candidates in the talent pool won't just suffer, it will disappear.<\/p>"}}]},"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v26.6 (Yoast SEO v27.1.1) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-premium-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Voters lose as Senate rejects Obama&#8217;s civil rights nominee - Common Cause<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.commoncause.org\/de\/artikel-2\/wahler-verlieren-als-senat-obamas-burgerrechtskandidaten-ablehnt\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"de_DE\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Voters lose as Senate rejects Obama&#8217;s civil rights nominee\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.commoncause.org\/de\/artikel-2\/wahler-verlieren-als-senat-obamas-burgerrechtskandidaten-ablehnt\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Common Cause\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:publisher\" content=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/CommonCause\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/www.commoncause.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/CC-Share-Graphic-Main9.jpg\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"1200\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"630\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/jpeg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:site\" content=\"@CommonCause\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.commoncause.org\/articles\/voters-lose-as-senate-rejects-obamas-civil-rights-nominee\/\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.commoncause.org\/articles\/voters-lose-as-senate-rejects-obamas-civil-rights-nominee\/\",\"name\":\"Voters lose as Senate rejects Obama&#8217;s civil rights nominee - 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