McConnell: Biden trying to appoint judge tied to ‘extremist group that unabashedly celebrates terrorism’

(Daily Wire) Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) warned this week about a far-left [attorney] that President Joe Biden is trying to give a lifetime appointment to as a federal judge, saying that law enforcement officials across the country object to the extremist being appointed … U.S. circuit judge for the Third Circuit.

The president first nominated Adeel Mangi, a Muslim who was born in Pakistan, in November before Senate Republicans grilled him over his work for a group accused of featuring speakers who backed anti-Semitic and anti-American activism. Mangi was a member of an advisory board for the Center for Security, Race, and Rights at Rutgers Law School from 2019 to 2023. Republican senators were appalled after finding that the center co-sponsored a symposium on the 20th anniversary of 9/11 that featured a panelist who pled guilty to providing support for Islamic jihadists and another panelist who publicly called for an intifada in the U.S.

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