President Biden nominated Adeel Mangi for a seat on the U.S. Court of Appeals 3rd Circuit — the level just below the Supreme Court. But Senators Joe Manchin and Catherine Cortez Masto have announced they will not support him, and in a 51-49 Senate, it looks bad.
On Saturday morning’s The Weekend show on MSNBC, they came rushing to Mangi’s defense. They ran a clip of Sen. Cory Booker ranting “No matter what happens to his nomination, this is [voice breaks] a great American who should be proud of his work!”
Co-anchor Symone Sanders-Townsend decried “politics is fueling a lot of the vitriol and misinformation against this nominee.” MSNBC.com writer Hayes Brown said it’s just “racism against a Muslim candidate.”
HAYES BROWN: I mean, absolutely. Well, quickly, I just want to say that I love when Cory Booker gets on the pulpit. I love when he is on a…
