Kennedy: You didn’t resign? Biden Judicial Nominee Mangi Dodges Questions on Ties to Radical Center

President Biden’s “historic” nominee for a federal appellate court served on the board of a Muslim advocacy group that has blamed Israel for provoking Hamas’s terrorist attack and hosted an event with a convicted terrorist fundraiser on the 20th anniversary of 9/11.

Adeel Abdullah Mangi, Biden’s nominee for the Third Circuit Court of Appeals, served on the advisory board of Rutgers Law School’s Center for Security, Race and Rights from 2019 until earlier this year. During his time on the board, the think tank feted anti-Israel college students and marked the anniversary of the September 11 attacks with an event featuring a terrorist fundraiser. If confirmed, Mangi will be the first Muslim to serve on a federal appellate court, a fact highlighted by Democrats at Mangi’s confirmation hearing. The organization, which works to end “mass incarceration,” was formed in 2016 with Weather Underground member Kathy Boudin as a founding director. Boudin pleaded guilty to the murder of two police officers and a security guard during an armored truck robbery in 1981. The FBI named Weather Underground a domestic terrorist organization following a string of bombings and robberies in the 1970s and ‘80s.

“How do you sit on an organization that would invite these terrorists, convicted terrorists? You didn’t resign,” said Sen. John Kennedy (R., La.).

“I never heard of that event until today,” Mangi said.

Kennedy questions Mangi in Judiciary.

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Kennedy: You didn’t resign? Biden Judicial Nominee Adeel Mangi Dodges Questions on Ties to Radical Center

Key Points

President Biden’s “historic” nominee for a federal appellate court served on the board of a Muslim advocacy group that has blamed Israel for provoking Hamas’s terrorist attack and hosted an event with a convicted terrorist fundraiser on the 20th anniversary of 9/11

• Adeel Abdullah Mangi, Biden’s nominee for the Third Circuit Court of Appeals, served on the advisory board of Rutgers Law School’s Center for Security, Race and Rights from 2019 until earlier this year
• During his time on the board, the think tank feted anti-Israel college students and marked the anniversary of the September 11 attacks with an event featuring a terrorist fundraiser
• If confirmed, Mangi will be the first Muslim to serve on a federal appellate court, a fact highlighted by Democrats at Mangi’s confirmation hearing

Transcript Highlights

Transcribed from the video audio:

• and has publicly called for an intifada in the United States
• With regard to the event that you are describing, I’ve never heard of that event prior today
• It was never presented to the advisory board that I was part of
• How could you sit on an organization that would invite these terrorists, convicted terrorists, counselor
• Senator, I never heard of that event until today
• I have never heard of this event prior today
• It had nothing to do with my role, I suppose
• From 2019-2023, you were a board member of the Center for Security, Race and Rights at Rutgers Law School
• I was a member of an advisory board, Senator
• Well, Senator, boards of directors govern an institution