The Judicial Crisis Network (JCN), a conservative judicial advocacy group based in the nation’s capital, has criticized one of President Biden’s controversial nominees for alleging ties to sympathizers of the 9/11 hijackers. We are running a digital advertising campaign.
JCN’s advertising campaign will run in Pennsylvania, Montana, and Washington, D.C., with an initial purchase price of $50,000 and will specifically target Adeel Abdullah Mangi, who was recently nominated by Biden to serve as a judge on the U.S. Court of Appeals. is targeting Mr. Third circuit.
Advertisements in Pennsylvania and Montana asked Sens. Jon Tester, D-Montana, and Bob Casey, D-Pennsylvania, to “vote no” on Mangi’s nomination for a lifetime appointment on the federal bench. ” and urges people to denounce judicial candidates. He is too “extreme” and an “anti-Semite.”
“President Biden wants to reshape the court with the most extreme judges he can find,” the narrator says in the ad. “But anti-Semite Adeel Mangi may be the worst.”
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JCN’s ad campaign specifically targets Adeel Abdullah Mangi, who was recently nominated by Biden to the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit. (JCN/Getty Images)
The ad goes on to highlight Mangi’s tenure as an advisory board member for the Center on Safety, Race, and Rights at Rutgers University School of Law from 2019 to 2023.
JCN said that the “extremist organization” to which Mangi belonged “teaches students to hate Israel, hate America, and support global terrorism.”
“Mr. Mangi’s organization blames the United States for the September 11 terrorist attacks and has hosted terrorist figures, including convicted terrorists, as speakers,” the narrator continues. “Mr. Mangi’s organization also blamed Israel for the October 7 Hamas terrorist attack. When Mr. Mangi was given the opportunity to denounce these hateful views, he refused to do so. .”
In a statement to FOX News Digital, JCN President Carrie Severino denounced Mangi’s ties to “extreme anti-Semitic groups.”
“It’s bad enough that President Biden failed to identify key constitutional provisions and appointed activist judges who are hostile to law enforcement. But now Biden has appointed an activist judge with ties to radical anti-Semitic groups. “It’s blaming the United States for 9/11 and teaching students to hate Israel and the United States,” she said.
“In this era of rising anti-Semitism, how can supposedly moderates like Sens. Jon Tester and Bob Casey rubber-stamp these types of lifetime candidates? Can we? There is no place for this contempt for our principles and our country in the Third Circuit. The rule of law,” Severino added. “Senate Democrats should be ashamed of their support for Adeel Mangi, and President Biden should immediately withdraw his nomination.”
Since his nomination, Mangi has drawn heavy criticism from Republican lawmakers for his personal and financial ties to a university research center that has been accused of providing a platform to “terrorist sympathizers.”
Adeel Abdullah Mangi speaks during the Senate Judiciary Committee nomination hearing on December 13, 2023 in Washington, DC. (Tierney L. Cross/Bloomberg via Getty Images)
Last week, Republicans on the Senate Judiciary Committee announced that it was under investigation It rejected funding for the center and called its “platforming of radical ideologues” “troubling.”
“The center’s activities, encouragement of terrorist sympathizers, and organization of extremist ideologues are concerning to us as members of the Senate Judiciary Committee,” the committee’s Republicans said in a joint statement. .
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According to committee members, the center co-sponsored an event commemorating the 20th anniversary of the 9/11 attacks titled “Whose Story? 20 Years since September 11, 2001.”
In addition, committee members noted that the center hosted an event titled “Psychoanalysis under Occupation: Practices of Resistance in Palestine” three days after the October 7 massacre of Israelis by Hamas militants. Also mentioned. According to the committee, center faculty member Dr. Lara Sheehy opened her lecture by saying, “Zionist settler colonialism is a provocative structure.”
The center will also host an event in December 2023 titled “The West, Israel, and Settlers Colonizing Palestine” with Professor Joseph Massad, who described the October 7 massacre as “a jubilant ” he praised with words. in the article It was published the day after Hamas invaded Israel.
“Millions of jubilant Arabs spent all day watching the news as Palestinian fighters from Gaza breached the fences of Israeli prisons or glided over them in planes,” Massad said at the time. The sights he witnessed were equally spectacular…just as shocking.” Some Israeli colonial soldiers and officers were captured sleeping in their underwear. ”
Mangi’s nomination and affiliation with the center has also raised concerns from 10 House Republicans who represent districts covered by the Third Circuit Court of Appeals.
Pennsylvania Republican Party Whip Guy Reschenthaler and nine of his subordinates A colleague from Pennsylvania And New Jersey expressed “serious concerns” about Mangi’s nomination in a letter to Biden last month.
In their letter, the lawmakers said the center “has a deep history of amplifying anti-Semitic speech, terrorist propaganda, and anti-American rhetoric.”
“During its tenure as a board member, the center supported efforts to delegitimize the state of Israel by promoting the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) movement and calling for resistance in Palestine,” they said. is writing. “In 2021, the CEO of the Jewish Federation of Northern New Jersey said one of the center’s events would “delegitimize Israel and force their anti-Semitic policies into mainstream discourse.” He said it was aimed at The Jewish News Center and others labeled the center’s 2021 event as a “pro-Hamas” and “webinar that whitewashes terrorists.” ”
Mangi, a New Jersey resident and partner at the law firm Patterson Belknap Webb & Tyler, has been hailed by Democrats as potentially the nation’s first Muslim-American federal appellate judge. . (Tierney L. Cross/Bloomberg via Getty Images)
Like the senators, House Republicans said the center has a record of sympathizing with extremist terrorist organizations and pointed to the 9/11 anniversary event it hosted.
Republicans informed the president that Sami al-Arian, a convicted felon who supported Palestinian Islamic Jihad (PIJ), would be a featured speaker. At the event, Al-Arian blamed the 9/11 attacks on the United States and its support for Israel.
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“As the government knows, PIJ is a foreign terrorist organization and was responsible for the atrocities committed against Israel on October 7, 2023,” they wrote.
The lawmakers continued: “While Mr. Mangi’s affiliation with and financial support for the Center is concerning, it is also deeply concerning that Mr. Mangi has not condemned the Center and its extremist ideology.” he claimed.
“Mangi was given ample opportunity to denounce examples of anti-Semitic rhetoric espoused by the Center on multiple occasions before the Senate Judiciary Committee,” they said. “He failed to do so in each written response and oral testimony to the committee.”
Mangi advanced from the committee on an 11-10 party-line vote. His nomination is currently awaiting a vote by the full Senate.
Last month, White House Press Secretary Andrew Bates told Fox News Digital that he was “deeply proud” that President Biden had nominated Mangi, calling him “a person who will achieve the American Dream and support our nation.” “He is a lawyer of undisputed qualifications and experience who has dedicated himself to the Constitution and the rules of the state.” Law. “
He called the Republican criticism a “vile and unconscionable smear,” adding that the criticism has been “discredited by the Anti-Defamation League, the American Jewish Committee, the American Association of Jewish Lawyers and Jurists, and many other organizations.” ” he pointed out.
White House Press Secretary Andrew Bates told Fox News Digital last month that “President Biden is extremely proud” of nominating Mangi. (Saul Loeb/AFP via Getty Images)
Bates also accused Republican lawmakers of applying a “religious litmus test” to target Mangi’s Islamic faith, which he said is “prohibited” by the Constitution.
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Mangi, a New Jersey resident and partner at the law firm Patterson Belknap Webb & Tyler, has been hailed by Democrats as potentially the nation’s first Muslim-American federal appellate judge. .
“Mr. Mangi is a distinguished figure in the New Jersey legal community. This is a statement that is surpassed only by his character and unwavering commitment to fairness in the administration of justice.” ” said Sen. Cory Booker, D.N.J. Last month’s statement.
The Union for Jewish Values, the Zionist Organization of America and Americans Against Anti-Semitism are among those opposing Mangi’s nomination.
Fox News’ Brianna Herlihy contributed to this report.
