Biden Admin. Pushes Judicial Nom. With Anti-Semitic Affiliations
‘Over the past three years, our colleagues on the committee have met and considered an alarming parade of nominees whose conduct or lack of legal qualifications made them so wildly unfit for confirmation that they had to be withdrawn… Unfortunately, today’s nominees include yet another head-spinning example of the Biden Administration’s radical approach to filling the federal bench.’
WASHINGTON, D.C. – U.S. Senate Republican Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) delivered the following remarks today on the Senate floor regarding judicial nominations:
“This morning, the Judiciary Committee is examining another slate of President Biden’s nominees to join the federal bench.
“Over the past three years, our colleagues on the committee have met and considered an alarming parade of nominees whose conduct or lack of legal qualifications made them so wildly unfit for confirmation that they had to be withdrawn.
“From the First Circuit nominee known best for helping defend an elite prep school against a victim of sexual assault… to the Kansas District nominee who the American Bar Association was expected to find ‘not qualified’ for judicial service.
“Unfortunately, today’s nominees include yet another head-spinning example of the Biden Administration’s radical approach to filling the federal bench.
“Adeel Mangi is the President’s nominee to serve as Circuit Judge for the Third Circuit Court of Appeals. Since graduating from Harvard Law, he’s spent his career in private practice.
“But for years, he’s also served on the board of a Rutgers student organization that facilitates and amplifies grotesque, anti-Semitic activism.
“For example, on the 20th anniversary of September 11th, the Center for Security, Race and Rights at Rutgers Law School hosted speaking engagements for a ringleader of recent calls for an intifada in the United States and a convicted supporter of Palestinian Islamic Jihad.
“For those who need reminding, Palestinian Islamic Jihad and Hamas are holding hostages – including Americans – in Gaza as we speak.
“American Jews are facing an historic wave of anti-Semitic hate. And this wave is emanating from campus organizations across the country like the one Mr. Mangi guided and supported at Rutgers.
“Is the Biden Administration really asking the Senate to give life tenure on the court of appeals to a nominee with an extensive record of condoning terrorist propaganda?
I would urge our colleagues on the Judiciary Committee to take a very close look at Mr. Mangi’s nomination, and reject it.”
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