On November 15, 2023, President Biden nominated Adeel Mangi to be a federal appeals court judge in the Third Circuit. Mangi's credentials are unimpeachable. He received his legal training at Oxford and Harvard and has spent more than two decades as one of the nation's most successful litigators, specializing in complex corporate matters.
Cruz, Kennedy, Graham, et al, are all hateful, supremacist, intellectual midget bigots and their attacks on Mangi indicates yet more GOP projection of where predominately pseudo Christians are today. They exactly illustrate how humans of all religions can deform religious intent into power-seeking, subjugating, nonsense, simply based on hatred of 'others' rather than peace, love, or understanding. The outright slandering of Mangi over his religion ignores the meaning of freedom in America, whatever the hell that is these days.
What a brilliant and wise man Adeel Mangi shows himself to be when crassly questioned by the embarrassing likes of Cruz, Kennedy, Lee, and Graham. Mangi proves that he's above these Republican trash talkers. I would hope that the remaining intelligent Republican Senators will vote in Mangi's favor. We'll be rooting for him thanks to your wonderful article.
Who are these Democratic senators who would vote "no" on Mangi's confirmation? It's no wonder they don't want to put a name to their vote ahead of time. Theirs is a craven, cowardly position.
Who are these D senators? Sounds like they need a reminder of who they work for.
BTW- an anti-semite wouldn't last a NY minute as a leader of a Rutgers organization. If Dems cave on this, attacks on future nominees will only intensify
Qualified for serving on the bench and much more so than Cannon for instance.
When you look at recent events with SCOTUS, we have so much worse sitting in the highest court. One who takes trips with a billionaire and doesn't report it and has a wife involved in Jan. 6.
Yet same GOP is unconcerned and doesn't see the need for an investigation
3 of those same SCOTUS when asked about Roe v Wade during their Supreme Court nominations in front of Congress said they would support it. Look how that turned out. They profess Christianity. "Thou shall not lie" means nothing to the GOP. Regarding religion.
The Constitution states
"Each to the dictates of his own conscience."
Except if the GOP judiciary committee deems it necessary to make it a qualification. And feckless Dems jump on the wagon with them.
All persons need to held accountable for their lies and unethical behavior. Period. Until we have an effective and timely mechanism employing personally meaningful fines and penalties to deal with this type of smear propaganda, it will and does continue. The extremist Republicans are not ashamed of their behavior and with no accountability it becomes a normalized behavior.... this continues to disgraces our government and our country.
Trumps defamation penalty of 80+MM should have stopped him...but no. It is going to take jail time and greater fines and restrictions to shut the man up.
Most agree that it is ridiculous that this situation exists. without facts, truth and trust...we are no longer living in a civilized environment...more third world at this point in time.
The RNC is managed by RACIST , FASCIST Oligarchs, and they install Puppets—There isn’t a single, legitimate Repug serving the American people—they serve the KKKoch Gang of Puppet Masters who installed them into office. And what hypocrisy for them to point the finger of racism at others! Libertarian Fascism is rooted in racism from its very beginnings with John C. Calhoun, father of the Civil War and the racist Confederacy.
The RNC operates as an organized crime syndicate; puppets like Cruz, Kennedy, Graham doing a smear campaign is one more abuse of office they routinely deploy.
BTW—it is TED CRUZ who openly stated his opponent, Allred, hasn’t got a chance of election because he is black. Cruz is a racist in a racist district, banking on racism to keep his seat.
I know I shouldn’t be shocked anymore, but I was, by the “questions” from Cruz, Kennedy, etc. Absolutely appalling. There is no shame, there is no bottom.
It is up to us to contact our Senators, including those who we believe are on the right side of history, to demand they vote for confirmation and do everything in their power to convince others to do the same. https://www.senate.gov/senators/senators-contact.htm?Class=1
I want to see a few "CONFIRM MANGI" signs waving at the protests against Israel's attacks on Gaza.
And Democrats need to point out during the hearing that if a Jew was sitting in front of them, Republicans must grill them similarly about their loyalty. Democrats should also run ads about these appalling discriminatory questions and mix in video of Trump mocking the Muslim family that lost their son who served this country in Iraq (https://www.nytimes.com/2016/07/31/us/politics/donald-trump-khizr-khan-wife-ghazala.html), with a message: "nothing has changed in the Republican Party when it comes to discriminating against Muslims".
This type of gang-smear is a standard type of assault by the GOP that goes back decades (as per David Corn's book, American Psychosis). It often works. Who are the Democratic senators planning to cave to this horrible brace of lies? Cruz, Graham, Kennedy, and the rest, need to be publicly, intensely, and repeatedly shamed for their disgusting, uncivil actions.
Those old (mostly), white men who are attacking Mangi are just frightened of losing control hiding behind a religion (Christianity) they neither practice nor believe in.
Cruz, Kennedy, Graham, et al, are all hateful, supremacist, intellectual midget bigots and their attacks on Mangi indicates yet more GOP projection of where predominately pseudo Christians are today. They exactly illustrate how humans of all religions can deform religious intent into power-seeking, subjugating, nonsense, simply based on hatred of 'others' rather than peace, love, or understanding. The outright slandering of Mangi over his religion ignores the meaning of freedom in America, whatever the hell that is these days.
What a brilliant and wise man Adeel Mangi shows himself to be when crassly questioned by the embarrassing likes of Cruz, Kennedy, Lee, and Graham. Mangi proves that he's above these Republican trash talkers. I would hope that the remaining intelligent Republican Senators will vote in Mangi's favor. We'll be rooting for him thanks to your wonderful article.
Who are these Democratic senators who would vote "no" on Mangi's confirmation? It's no wonder they don't want to put a name to their vote ahead of time. Theirs is a craven, cowardly position.
Who are these D senators? Sounds like they need a reminder of who they work for.
BTW- an anti-semite wouldn't last a NY minute as a leader of a Rutgers organization. If Dems cave on this, attacks on future nominees will only intensify
Never give in to these racists. Ashamed to think there are Democrats not supporting this man.
A vote should be held so these Senators can no longer “tank his confirmation anonymously”.
Qualified for serving on the bench and much more so than Cannon for instance.
When you look at recent events with SCOTUS, we have so much worse sitting in the highest court. One who takes trips with a billionaire and doesn't report it and has a wife involved in Jan. 6.
Yet same GOP is unconcerned and doesn't see the need for an investigation
3 of those same SCOTUS when asked about Roe v Wade during their Supreme Court nominations in front of Congress said they would support it. Look how that turned out. They profess Christianity. "Thou shall not lie" means nothing to the GOP. Regarding religion.
The Constitution states
"Each to the dictates of his own conscience."
Except if the GOP judiciary committee deems it necessary to make it a qualification. And feckless Dems jump on the wagon with them.
The questioning by R’s not surprising as their presumptive nominee would deport people such as Manji. Excellent article!
Thank you!
All persons need to held accountable for their lies and unethical behavior. Period. Until we have an effective and timely mechanism employing personally meaningful fines and penalties to deal with this type of smear propaganda, it will and does continue. The extremist Republicans are not ashamed of their behavior and with no accountability it becomes a normalized behavior.... this continues to disgraces our government and our country.
Trumps defamation penalty of 80+MM should have stopped him...but no. It is going to take jail time and greater fines and restrictions to shut the man up.
Most agree that it is ridiculous that this situation exists. without facts, truth and trust...we are no longer living in a civilized environment...more third world at this point in time.
The RNC is managed by RACIST , FASCIST Oligarchs, and they install Puppets—There isn’t a single, legitimate Repug serving the American people—they serve the KKKoch Gang of Puppet Masters who installed them into office. And what hypocrisy for them to point the finger of racism at others! Libertarian Fascism is rooted in racism from its very beginnings with John C. Calhoun, father of the Civil War and the racist Confederacy.
The RNC operates as an organized crime syndicate; puppets like Cruz, Kennedy, Graham doing a smear campaign is one more abuse of office they routinely deploy.
BTW—it is TED CRUZ who openly stated his opponent, Allred, hasn’t got a chance of election because he is black. Cruz is a racist in a racist district, banking on racism to keep his seat.
I know I shouldn’t be shocked anymore, but I was, by the “questions” from Cruz, Kennedy, etc. Absolutely appalling. There is no shame, there is no bottom.
It is up to us to contact our Senators, including those who we believe are on the right side of history, to demand they vote for confirmation and do everything in their power to convince others to do the same. https://www.senate.gov/senators/senators-contact.htm?Class=1
I want to see a few "CONFIRM MANGI" signs waving at the protests against Israel's attacks on Gaza.
And Democrats need to point out during the hearing that if a Jew was sitting in front of them, Republicans must grill them similarly about their loyalty. Democrats should also run ads about these appalling discriminatory questions and mix in video of Trump mocking the Muslim family that lost their son who served this country in Iraq (https://www.nytimes.com/2016/07/31/us/politics/donald-trump-khizr-khan-wife-ghazala.html), with a message: "nothing has changed in the Republican Party when it comes to discriminating against Muslims".
This type of gang-smear is a standard type of assault by the GOP that goes back decades (as per David Corn's book, American Psychosis). It often works. Who are the Democratic senators planning to cave to this horrible brace of lies? Cruz, Graham, Kennedy, and the rest, need to be publicly, intensely, and repeatedly shamed for their disgusting, uncivil actions.
Spinelessness knows no political-party bounds.
Those old (mostly), white men who are attacking Mangi are just frightened of losing control hiding behind a religion (Christianity) they neither practice nor believe in.