EXCLUSIVE — A federal judicial nominee under fire for his prior role at an anti-Israel group was a key figure at a Muslim lawyers conference co-sponsored by a terrorism-linked group that the Biden White House disavowed over its Hamas support, documents show.
President Joe Biden has stood behind his pick for the 3rd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals of Adeel Mangi, a New Jersey attorney facing GOP-led scrutiny for sitting on an advisory board at Rutgers Law School’s Center for Security, Race and Rights, an office that hosted a 2021 event featuring a convicted terrorist fundraiser. In late 2022, at the annual conference for the National Association of Muslim Lawyers, Mangi moderated a panel that included the Rutgers center’s director, Sahar Aziz, who discussed “the failure of entrapment law to protect Muslim defendants from government manufactured terrorist plots,” according to internal Rutgers emails obtained by the Washington Examiner.
