Yesterday I noted Third Circuit nominee Adeel Mangi’s failure to disclose to the Senate Judiciary Committee the key role he played at a 2022 National Association of Muslim Lawyers conference that was sponsored by Hamas allies. Later in the day, Gabe Kaminsky, the reporter who broke this story on Thursday, further reported that Mangi had apologized by letter to the committee over the weekend for the omission. That was indeed an item he was required to submit to the committee, along with other public statements and published writings. Mangi called his omission “inadvertent” even though it occurred recently, during the year prior to that of his original nomination. My question is what else has Adeel Mangi not disclosed to the Senate Judiciary Committee?
This, of course, compounds grave concerns raised, independent of the disclosure issue, by Mangi’s broader affiliation with extremist groups with antisemitic, terrorist-coddling programming and with anti-police groups that prompted numerous law enforcement organizations to oppose his nomination. What more does President Biden need to see in order to withdraw Mangi’s nomination, effective immediately?