Schumer may let controversial Biden nominee with 'problematic' ties quietly expire: expert

A controversial judicial nominee proposed by President Biden will expire at the end of the 118th Congress in just months, and some experts are speculating that this is just what the president and Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., are planning for.

"This nominee has lost all hope from the Biden White House of getting a floor vote, given we are months away from the election," explained Ron Bonjean, a former spokesman for former Sen. Trent Lott, R-Miss., and former chief of staff of the Senate Republican Conference.

"They are more than likely going to let him twist in the wind hoping he withdraws on his own," he continued. Bonjean ran communications for the Senate confirmation of Supreme Court Justice Neil Gorsuch while working in the upper chamber and has experience with the process.

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Neither the White House nor Schumer's office provided comment to Fox News Digital regarding their plans for Mangi's nomination and whether it would ever see the chamber floor for a vote, where it would likely fail.

"Having a vote and losing it, due to members of your own party, would only serve to advertise the problems the president is having related to the Israel-Hamas war," said Grant Reeher, a political science professor at Syracuse University.

Ross Baker, Distinguished Professor Emeritus of Political Science at Rutgers University, suggested, "If there is any way in which a member of Congress can avoid taking a controversial vote, that would be the course that they will take on this nomination."

One of the significant critiques of Mangi's nomination has been his association with the Rutgers University Center for Security, Race and Rights (CSRR), where he served