“Civil Rights Advocate Debo Adegbile Joins Wilmer”

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Adegbile was under consideration for a seat on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit, and was nominated in 2013 to head the Civil Rights Division of the U.S. Department of Justice. The Senate rejected his nomination in March of this year. Some senators cited an appellate brief he wrote while with the fund in the case of Mumia Abu-Jamal, convicted of killing a Philadelphia police officer in 1981. Others defended him for that post-conviction representation.

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