Jennifer Bendery is a senior politics reporter for HuffPost. She has covered Congress and the White House for HuffPost since April 2011. She previously reported on Congress for four years for Roll Call, a Capitol Hill newspaper, and spent four years covering the Texas Legislature for GalleryWatch in Austin, TX.
WASHINGTON ― A Black former U.S. appeals court judge appointed by President George W. Bush privately reached out to Senate leaders this month to urge them to confirm President Joe Biden’s Muslim judicial pick Adeel Mangi, saying he is “deeply disturbed” by the GOP’s ugly and baseless attacks on him.
Some Senate Democratic aides told HuffPost on Friday they weren’t sure if he had the votes to get confirmed.“I think it will be very tough at this point,” one aide, who requested anonymity to speak frankly about intra-party disputes, conceded. Severino and other Republicans are accusing Mangi of supporting the killing of police officers because Alliance of Families for Justice in 2021like Mumia Abu-Jamal, who caught COVID-19 in prison and was at risk of dying. Abu-Jamal has been in prison since 1981 after being convicted of killing a police officer. , who wasJoe Biden's nominee for a federal appellate court, Adeel Mangi, was a board member of a group that advocated for cop-killers.
“Mr. Mangi was approved by the Senate Judiciary Committee, and the White House continues to fight for his confirmation and to repudiate the vicious hate and bigotry with which he has been targeted because of his Muslim faith,” Bates said. “Senior staff are calling members on his behalf every day, and no senator should cave to hateful, undignified lies.”Sen.
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