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Lynching Adegbile

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   " A vote that undermines vigorous enforcement of the Voting Rights Act --

   " A vote that reinforces Republican efforts in recent years to prevent certain categories of Americans from voting ever --

   " A vote that ignores relevance, logic, and facts --

   " A vote that promotes filibuster as an acceptable evasion of public responsibility --

   " A vote that punishes civility and allows the screeching of a hate mob to overwhelm reasoned debate --

   " A vote that punishes an innocent man for serving the Constitution --

   " A vote that punishes the Constitution for giving rights to all. 

After these seven Democratic quislings had collaborated in stopping Adegbile's nomination in its tracks, another Democrat switched his vote to join them. The eighth Democratic vote to sustain the filibuster was majority leader Harry Reid of Nevada who changed his vote for tactical reasons. Under Senate rules, only a Senator who has voted against the nomination is entitled to bring it the floor again, and that's just one of many goo   

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d deeds the other seven Democrats can't be trusted to do.    

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