The Obama administration certainly had its work cut out for it when it tried to find someone farther to the left than Thomas Perez to head the Justice Department’s civil-rights division, but it appears to have succeeded. Among his other accomplishments, Debo Adegbile went out of his way to play a role in defending cop killer Mumia Abu-Jamal, an international cause célèbre on the left, prompting the Fraternal Order of Police, among other groups, to oppose his nomination. Read all about this and Mr. Adegbile’s other left-wing causes here.