The Biden White House and the Senate’s Democrat leaders are sticking by a nominee for an appeals court vacancy with ties to anti-Israel and anti-police organizations, despite shaky support among some Democrats.
Separately, a watchdog group raised questions about the judicial nominee’s financial disclosure report.
In November, President Joe Biden nominated New York lawyer Adeel Mangi to be a judge on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 3rd Circuit, which hears cases from Pennsylvania, New Jersey, Delaware, and the Virgin Islands.
In a party-line vote in January, the Senate Judiciary Committee advanced the nomination of Mangi, a partner at Patterson Belknap Webb & Tyler in New York City.
But this month, Sens. Catherine Cortez Masto of Nevada and Joe Manchin of West Virginia announced their opposition to Mangi, while other Senate Democrats in battleground…
