Adeel Abdullah Mangi testifies before the Senate Judiciary Committee during his confirmation hearing to be a U.S. Circuit Judge for the Third Circuit Court of Appeals, on Wednesday, December 13, 2023. Photo: Diego M. Radzinschi/ALM
Republican members of the Senate Judiciary Committee grilled a pair of circuit court nominees, including Third Circuit pick Adeel Mangi over his role on an advisory board to the Rutgers’ Center for Security, Race and Rights.
The lawmakers on Dec. 13 pointed to a letter signed by the center’s director in 2021 that supported Palestinians against “violent occupant removal, erasure and expansion of Israeli settler colonialism.” Sen. Josh Hawley, R-Missouri, and other Republicans repeatedly pressed Mangi on whether he agrees with the director’s views.
