Republicans have been waging a months-long smear campaign against Mangi, who, if confirmed, would be the nation’s first Muslim U.S. appeals court judge. He’s currently a nominee to the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 3rd Circuit, and if confirmed, he’d tilt that court’s ideological balance to be evenly divided between GOP-appointed and Democrat-appointed judges — certainly one reason why Republicans don’t want him confirmed.
But their attacks on Mangi, a 23-year civil litigator based in New Jersey, have been as grossly Islamophobic as they have been unfounded. Republicans have tried to cast him as an antisemitic terrorist sympathizer, and more recently, are accusing him of associating himself with cop-killers.
TVNL Comment: The disrespect shown by GOP Senators to Mr. Mangi was outrageous. Wake up and vote out these haters.