Republican Senators grilled lawyer Adeel Mangi on Wednesday in his confirmation hearing for the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit about his role on a board for an institute with radical anti-Israel views that invited convicted terrorists as speakers.
Mangi would be the first Muslim appellate judge, if confirmed. But his role as a member of an academic advisory board for the Rutgers Law School’s Center for Security, Race and Rights drew attention — and Mangi did his best to evade questions.
The New Jersey Globe reported:
The 46-year-old Mangi was born in Pakistan and got his law degree at the University of Oxford before immigrating to the United States in 1999. In 2000, he settled in Jersey City and joined the law firm of Patterson Belknap Webb & Tyler, where he remains to this day as a partner; he was nomnated by President Joe Biden on November 15 to succeed…
