A controversial judicial nominee proposed by President Biden will expire at the end of the 118th Congress in just months, and some experts are speculating that this is just what the president and Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., are planning for.\u00a0<\/p>\n
\u2018This nominee has lost all hope from the Biden White House of getting a floor vote, given we are months away from the election,\u2019 explained Ron Bonjean, a former spokesman for former Sen. Trent Lott, R-Miss., and former chief of staff of the Senate Republican Conference.\u00a0<\/p>\n
\u2018They are more than likely going to let him twist in the wind hoping he withdraws on his own,\u2019 he continued. Bonjean ran communications for the Senate confirmation of Supreme Court Justice Neil Gorsuch while working in the upper chamber and has experience with the process.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Neither the White House nor Schumer\u2019s office provided comment to Fox News Digital regarding their plans for Mangi\u2019s nomination and whether it would ever see the chamber floor for a vote, where it would likely fail. \u00a0<\/p>\n
\u2018Having a vote and losing it, due to members of your own party, would only serve to advertise the problems the president is having related to the Israel-Hamas war,\u2019 said Grant Reeher, a political science professor at Syracuse University.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Ross Baker, Distinguished Professor Emeritus of Political Science at Rutgers University, suggested, \u2018If there is any way in which a member of Congress can avoid taking a controversial vote, that would be the course that they will take on this nomination.\u2019<\/p>\n
One of the significant critiques of Mangi\u2019s nomination has been his association with the Rutgers University Center for Security, Race and Rights (CSRR), where he served on the board of advisers from 2019 to 2023. CSRR has been accused of antisemitism, particularly in the wake of the Hamas terrorist attack against Israel and subsequent war.<\/p>\n
Critics have pointed to an event held on the 20th anniversary of the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks that hosted controversial speakers such as Hatem Bazian, who in 2004 called for an \u2018intifada,\u2019 according to video from an anti-war protest in San Francisco.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Another speaker was Sami Al-Arian, who, In 2006, pleaded guilty to \u2018conspiring to provide services to the Palestinian Islamic Jihad,\u2019 according to the Justice Department.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Noura Erakat, a human rights attorney, Palestinian-American activist and associate professor at Rutgers, has also been a speaker for CSRR. It was uncovered that she had separately been advertised as a panelist for an event alongside Hamas commander Ghazi Hamad.\u00a0<\/p>\n
CSRR did not provide comment to Fox News Digital.<\/p>\n
\u2018That\u2019s not a message you want six months out from an election,\u2019 Reeher added.\u00a0<\/p>\n
The political science professor concluded that the odds of Mangi\u2019s confirmation are low, noting, \u2018Three Democrats have publicly said they would vote no, and it\u2019s unlikely that he will get any Republican votes.\u2019<\/p>\n
Both Democratic Nevada Sens. Catherine Cortez Masto and Jacky Rosen came out against Biden\u2019s nominee, citing concerns from law enforcement constituents and Mangi\u2019s connection to a controversial and allegedly anti-law enforcement group.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Mangi is a current advisory board member of the Alliance of Families for Justice (AFJ). The group\u2019s founding board member was Kathy Boudin, who notably pleaded guilty to the felony murder of two police officers in 1981 after they died following an armored truck robbery.\u00a0<\/p>\n
The robbery was carried out by the Weather Underground Organization, an FBI-designated domestic terrorist group, of which Boudin was a part. \u00a0<\/p>\n
\u2018If religion, by itself, should not be an obstacle to confirmation, association with a controversial organization would probably be fatal,\u2019 Baker explained.<\/p>\n
\u2018Judges, especially, should be seen as free of problematic associations,\u2019 he added.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Dick Durbin, D-Ill., has emerged as the fiercest proponent for Mangi, even as his confirmation likelihood looks dim.\u00a0<\/p>\n
A spokesperson for the committee told Fox News Digital, \u2018Sen. Durbin will continue to point out the false, baseless nature of Senate Republicans\u2019 accusations against Mr. Mangi, a historic nominee who is well-qualified for the federal bench. These guilt-by-association smears are blatantly hypocritical coming from Senate Republicans and their dark money allies, who worked to confirm objectively unqualified nominees to the federal bench during the Trump Administration.\u2019\u00a0<\/p>\n
Durbin did not provide comment on whether he thinks Biden and Schumer are waiting for the nomination to expire and whether he would be frustrated by this.\u00a0<\/p>\n
His office also did not say if he would like to see it come to the floor for a vote.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Sen. Tom Cotton, R-Ark., a member of the committee, claimed, \u2018Adeel Mangi\u2019s credible ties to antisemites and terrorist sympathizers make him wholly unqualified to serve as an appellate judge.\u2019<\/p>\n
\u2018By refusing to pull his nomination, President Biden is choosing to play electoral politics with our country\u2019s judiciary,\u2019 he said.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., addressed the still-active nomination of Mangi in floor remarks on Thursday, criticizing Democrats for mounting \u2018an all-out campaign to gin up left-wing support for Mr. Mangi.\u2019\u00a0<\/p>\n
He claimed they \u2018can\u2019t rebut these disqualifying associations because they\u2019re facts.\u2019<\/p>\n
\u2018For the past few months, Democrats have paraded Mr. Mangi in front of liberal interest groups in order to secure their endorsements,\u2019 McConnell explained, referring to a number of endorsements the Biden administration has rolled out to shore up support for the nominee, who would be the first Muslim circuit appellate court judge.\u00a0<\/p>\n
The minority leaders suggested the meetings with these groups call into question Mangi\u2019s ethics.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Mangi did not return a request for comment to Fox News Digital.\u00a0<\/p>\n
While Biden doesn\u2019t appear to be publicly pushing Mangi\u2019s nomination in the wake of Democratic defectors, \u2018There is always a chance that there could be another push to confirm him during the lame duck session before the next Congress,\u2019 said Bonjean. \u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n\n
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