in 2009, 27 years after danny faulkner was killed, the naacp legal defense fund decided to join thisal campaign, this outrageous campaign. the director of litigation at the naacp's legal defense fund for,e time was responsible he supervised the entire legal staff at the legal defense fund. and what did they do in this case? they joined this outrageous mockery. two the lvf lawyers in may of 2011 traveled to france to participate in a rally for mumia i would job. whenaid she was overjoyed his death sentence was suspended lawyerthe other ldf described him as "one of the people who are in is sent but will be put to death in america." at another event in new york in the same year, another one of these lawyers gushed it is absolutely my honor to represent him. and she went on to say there's no question in my mind, there is no question in the mind of anyone at the legal defense fund that the justice system has completely and utterly failed mumia abu-jamal. and that failure has everything to do with race. ladies and gentlemen, i agree that the justice system had failed. but it has dale -- bu

on december 9th, 1981, when 25-year-old philadelphia police officer danny faulkner was brutally murdered in the line of duty. >> a former journalist and black panther was eventually convicted and put on death row for the killing of officer faulkner, though then and now he maintains his innocence. 30 years after the original conviction, as head of the naacp's legal defense fund, he led a successful challenge to jamal's death sentence, getting it thrown out in 2011. so abuja malremains in prison for life. police unions in pennsylvania and nationally vehement loppose his nomination. toomey cited the defense of a cop killer as his reason for whipping those no votes. president obama called yesterday's vote a travesty based on wildly unfair character attacks. and msnbc.com's adam stur pointed out that the senate hasn't been so critical of lawyers who helped people considered beyond the pale. before he was supreme court chief justice, attorney john roberts did pro bono work defending one of florida's most notorious serial killers, ferguson, who was recently put to death, tricked his way into a

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president, i agree that the justice system has failed, but it's failed officer danny faulkner and his family. now, no one understands this story of injustice better than officer danny faulkner's widow, maureen. maureen faulkner pleaded with the senate judiciary committee for a chance to tell her story, for a chance to testify before the committee as they were deliberating the candidacy of mr. adegbile, but the senate, the senate democrats on the committee would not allow her to testify. they didn't let her tell her story, and instead they voted to send his name on to the senate floor for confirmation. mr. president, i think maureen faulkner has a right to be heard so i hope my colleagues will listen as i read a letter that she wrote addressing all of us. "dear senators, while i would have preferred to do so personally, i'm writing this letter peeling to your sense of right and wrong, good and evil as you consider the nomination of debo p. adegbile to be the next head of the civil rights division of the justice department. 33 years ago, my husband, philadelphia police officer daniel fa

on december 9, 1981, when 25-year-old philadelphia police officer danny faulkner was brutally murdered in the line of duty. just a few weeks ago, officer faulkner's widow, maureen faulkner, pleaded with the senate judiciary committee to listen to her story, and it is a heartbreaking story. it is a story of how 32-year-old a coldblooded killer murdered her husband and how political opportunists then seized the chance to deny her justice and propagate a very pernicious set of lies. it's also a story about how president obama's current nominee to head the justice department's civil rights division, this gentleman, debo adegbile, joined in this gross abuse of our legal system. unfortunately, our colleagues on the senate judiciary committee, our democratic colleagues, did not allow maureen faulkner to testified when the committee was considering this nominee. madam president, i think maureen faulkner deserves to be heard. i think she has a right to be heard. we've heard a lot of voices and a lot of arguments in this discussion. i think maureen faulkner's voice deserves to be heard. and sinc