A Democrat Just Caved To The GOP’s Bogus Attacks On Biden’s Muslim Court Pick

WASHINGTON — Sen. Catherine Cortez Masto (D-Nev.) announced late Tuesday that she won’t support President Joe Biden’s judicial nominee, Adeel Mangi, caving to an ugly campaign waged by the GOP and throwing the fate of his nomination into question.

“I cannot support this nominee,” Cortez Masto said in a statement. “Mr. Mangi’s affiliation with the Alliance of Families for Justice is deeply concerning.”

She said AFJ, a New York City-based nonprofit organization that provides counseling services and legal aid to the family members of people who have been incarcerated, did two things that she can’t get past.

“This organization has sponsored a fellowship in the name of Kathy Boudin, a member of the domestic terrorist organization Weather Underground, and advocated for the release of individuals convicted of killing police officers,” she said.

There are so many problems with this argument that it’s hard to know where to begin.

And the bigger question is whether Cortez Masto, the first Democrat to publicly oppose Mangi, realizes that she is giving in to a monthslong campaign of baseless and Islamophobic attacks on a historic judicial nominee that Republicans simply don’t want confirmed to a pivotal seat on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 3rd Circuit.

Mangi, a veteran civil litigator based in New Jersey, was unanimously rated well-qualified by the American Bar Association. He has been hailed for his legal and pro-bono work by a range of organizations, including the AFL-CIO , the Coalition of Underrepresented Law Enforcement Associations and more than a dozen prominent Jewish groups .

Mangi also happens to be Muslim. If confirmed, he’d be the nation’s first-ever Muslim appeals court judge. He would also even out the