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, the first Muslim nominated for a federal appellate court judgeship, withdrew his nomination for the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 3rd Circuit in a fiery letter to President“This is no longer a system for evaluating fitness for judicial office,” Mangi wrote, describing the judicial confirmation process as driven by “performative McCarthyism” and “dark-money-funded attacks that especially target minorities.
Mangi, a New York lawyer with a multifaceted legal career, was nominated to the Philadelphia-based U.S. Court of Appeals for the 3rd Circuit in 2023. However, his confirmation faced fierce opposition from Republicans, who questioned his stance on Israel, Hamas,, decried the line of questioning as rooted in anti-Muslim bias, asserting that he was presumed guilty of extremist sympathies simply because of his faith.
New Jersey Attorney General Matt Platkin posted to X that Mangi “deserved better,” saying the opposition to him was “disgraceful” and that his confirmation “would have meant a more representative judiciary.” “Adeel Mangi’s judicial nomination was defeated because he had ties to a radical, antisemitic group that blamed the United States for 9/11 and taught students to hate Israel and our country,” Severino said. “And then he misled the Senate Judiciary Committee about it.”While Mangi’s nomination faced a Republican attack fueled by Republican Senate Judiciary Committee members and Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell , it was Democratic defections that sealed his fate.
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