President Biden nominated Adeel Mangi for a seat on the U.S. Court docket of Appeals third Circuit — the extent just under the Supreme Court docket. However Senators Joe Manchin and Catherine Cortez Masto have introduced they won’t help him, and in a 51-49 Senate, it seems unhealthy.
On Saturday morning’s The Weekend present on MSNBC, they got here dashing to Mangi’s protection. They ran a clip of Sen. Cory Booker ranting “It doesn’t matter what occurs to his nomination, that is [voice breaks] an excellent American who needs to be pleased with his work!”
Co-anchor Symone Sanders-Townsend decried “politics is fueling a number of the vitriol and misinformation towards this nominee.” MSNBC.com author Hayes Brown mentioned it is simply “racism towards a Muslim candidate.”
HAYES BROWN: I imply, completely. Properly, shortly, I simply need to say that I really like when Cory Booker will get on the pulpit. I really like when he’s on a mission to attempt to persuade his colleagues about what proper is. He does it amazingly.
However yeah, it is a matter of politics. The truth that there any Democrats which are unwilling to help this nominee is about being afraid, actually. Afraid of the form of backlash that, oh, you supported this candidate for xyz when not one of the rumors and vitriol which are being unfold are literally true.
It is actually only a matter of racism towards a Muslim candidate that we’re seeing. And that’s one thing Senator Booker is standing up towards. And I feel all Democrats within the Senate needs to be keen to face up towards.
Neither Brown, nor Sanders-Townsend cited any details in an try and refute the allegations towards Mangi. Fortuitously, Sen. John Kennedy (R-La.) has laid out, chapter and verse, the case towards Biden’s nominee. The complete document is right here, however among the many lowlights
— Mangi is on the advisory board of the Alliance of Households for Justice. “One of many Alliance’s founders was convicted of murdering law enforcement officials in chilly blood. . . . Now the Alliance [of] Households for Justice—on whose board Mr. Mangi [sat]—advocates for the discharge of people that kill cops.”
— Mangi additionally served on the advisory board of the Heart for Safety, Race and Rights. On the twentieth anniversary of 9/11, the group held an occasion entitled: “Whose narrative? 20 years since 9/11.” The aim of the occasion was in charge America for 9/1
The director of the Heart says she’s “in awe” of the Palestinian’s wrestle towards Israel and “Israeli settler colonialism.” May Mangi have been actually unaware of the director’s views? In any case, she personally recruited him to serve on the advisory board.
— And when Sen. Tom Cotton [R-AR] requested Mangi whether or not Israeli Jews are “colonial settlers,” Mangi made the lamest dodge, claiming he “did not really feel certified to opine on that as a result of it is not a area whose historical past I’ve studied, or the place I am from.”
Riight.
Q. Mr. Mangi, is it raining?
A. Hey, who do you suppose I’m—Jim Cantore?
So Democrats are afraid for his or her careers, of the “backlash”? Cortez Masto is on the poll this fall. However is Brown conscious that, 4 months in the past, Joe Manchin, the opposite Democrat opposed, introduced that he would not be working for re-election? If there’s one factor Manchin would not have to fret about, it is backlash!
Brown and Sanders-Townsend claimed that “politics” had been behind the rejection of Mangi. After all, politics had nothing to do with the Democrats’ shameful assaults on Brett Kavanaugh. And going again to 1991, there was a sure Democrat chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee who angrily confronted Supreme Court docket nominee Clarence Thomas. No politics there!
Notice: MSNBC describes Brown’s job as “assist[ing] body the information of the day for readers.” Now you have acquired us afraid!
This is the transcript.
MSNBC
The Weekend
3/23/34
8:23 am EDTSYMONE SANDERS-TOWNSEND: Hayes, I need to play Senator Cory Booker final evening or this morning, nonetheless you’d prefer to parse it.
The Biden administration has confirmed a document variety of judges with various backgrounds and quite a few firsts. And one of many firsts, Adeel Mangi, who would have been the primary Muslim American on a federal appeals, on this explicit federal appeals courtroom, his nomination was imperilled due to quite a few assaults. And that is Sen. Booker in protection of him, however I’d additionally argue, celebration.
CORY BOOKER: It doesn’t matter what occurs to his nomination, that is [voice breaks] an excellent American who needs to be pleased with his work. We should always have a good time him whether or not we vote for him or not. We should always cherish a second like this that makes historical past.
SANDERS-TOWNSEND: Hayes, I’ve to surprise if the nomination of this explicit nominee can be in peril if it weren’t an election 12 months, and if weren’t so many issues taking place throughout the pond, if you’ll, significantly within the Center East in relation to the battle between Israel and Hamas. And if politics is fueling a number of the vitriol and misinformation towards this nominee.
HAYES BROWN: I imply, completely. Properly, shortly, I simply need to say that I really like when Cory Booker will get on the pulpit. I really like when he’s on a mission to attempt to persuade his colleagues about what proper is. He does it amazingly.
However yeah, it is a matter of politics. The truth that there any Democrats which are unwilling to help this nominee is about being afraid, actually. Afraid of the form of backlash that, oh, you supported this candidate for xyz when not one of the rumors and vitriol which are being unfold are literally true.
It is actually only a matter of racism towards a Muslim candidate that we’re seeing. And that’s one thing Senator Booker is standing up towards. And I feel all Democrats within the Senate needs to be keen to face up towards.
SANDERS-TOWNSEND: I ought to have famous, it’s two Democrats, Catherine Cortez Masto of Nevada and, uh, West Virginia’s senator who’ve famous they don’t seem to be supporting the nomination.