Adeel Mangi would be the first Muslim federal appeals court judge. Possessed of a resume that would be celebrated as an exemplar of ours as a land of opportunity, his nomination for the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit hangs by a thread. Slandered with the tar brush of association with causes he opposes, his nomination regrettably appears to be doomed.

Born in 1977 in Karachi, Pakistan, he earned a First Class Degree in Law from the University of Oxford, Pembroke College, in 1998. After a Postgraduate Diploma in professional legal skills from the City University London Inns of Court School of Law, he gained an LL.M. from Harvard Law School in 2000.