Joe Biden is radicalizing the federal judiciary:
President Joe Biden’s latest judicial nominee, whom the White House is hailing as “historic” due to his Muslim faith, serves on the advisory board of a left-wing group with extensive ties to convicted cop killers, the Washington Free Beacon has found.
Adeel Abdullah Mangi, whom Biden tapped to serve on the Third Circuit Court of Appeals, is an advisory board member of Alliance of Families for Justice. The organization, which works to end “mass incarceration,” was formed in 2016 with Weather Underground member Kathy Boudin as a founding director. Boudin pleaded guilty to the murder of two police officers and a security guard during an armored truck robbery in 1981. The FBI named Weather Underground a domestic terrorist organization following a string of bombings and robberies in the 1970s and ‘80s.
The Alliance of Families for Justice, where Mangi has served since 2019, organized an event in 2021 to urge the release of six Black Panther and Black Liberation Army members serving life in prison for murdering police officers. The Alliance referred to the cop killers—including Black Panther members Mumia Abu-Jamal, H. Rap Brown, and others—as “freedom fighters” and claimed they were illegally targeted by the FBI….His position on the Alliance of Families for Justice board could also present a conflict of interest, which was not discussed at Wednesday’s hearing. The Third Circuit has heard appeals brought by Abu-Jamal, who was convicted of murdering a Philadelphia police officer in 1981. The court overturned Abu-Jamal’s death sentence in 2011.
The Alliance of Families for Justice is not the only radical group on Mangi’s resume. He served until this year on the advisory board for Rutgers Law School’s Center for Race, Security, and Rights, an anti-Israel organization that supports boycotts against Israel and recently blamed Israel’s “settler colonialism” for provoking Hamas terrorists’ Oct. 7 attack. The Center hosted an event on the 20th anniversary of 9/11 that featured Sami al-Arian, a former professor convicted of raising money for the Palestinian Islamic Jihad terrorist group.
Mangi will likely be confirmed on a largely party-line vote by the Democratic-controlled U.S. Senate. Earlier, the Senate confirmed an Arizona lawyer to the nation’s biggest federal appeals court even though she sat on the board of a group that has advocated abolishing prisons and the police. Even so-called “moderate” Democrats like Joe Manchin and Kyrsten Sinema voted for her confirmation (there really are no moderate Democrats left in the Senate). That lawyer, Roopali Desai, was appointed by Joe Biden to the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit. That’s the nation’s biggest federal appeals court, which has jurisdiction over one-fifth of the United States:
Desai serves on the board of Just Communities Arizona (JCA), a self-described “abolitionist organization” that envisions “a world in which prisons and jails are unnecessary.”
The organization has taken several radical stances on the criminal justice system, including claiming that “the criminal punishment system isn’t really about justice” and mourning Arizona’s execution of Frank Atwood last month.
Atwood was convicted in 1987 of raping and murdering 8-year-old Vicki Lynne Hoskinson prior to disposing of her body in the Arizona desert northwest of Tuscon. “The state of Arizona has executed Frank Atwood,” a black graphic featuring a lit candle published by the organization on Facebook read. “Please take a moment to send Light to Frank Atwood, his family and friends, and all those who suffer under Arizona’s punishment system (including those who are employed by it.”……
AFSC’s national arm supports defunding the police…AFSC-Arizona co-signed a statement from the national arm that called to divert resources “away from the police forces that occupy our communities.”
AFSC also supported abolishing prisons as well as the Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions (BDS) movement targeting Israel backed by several terrorist organizations….”Roopali Desai’s disturbing record makes her unfit to serve in the federal judiciary,” Article III Project founder and president Mike Davis told Fox News Digital. “Desai has spent her professional career championing a radical left-wing agenda.” “Given the revelations brought to light by the Article III Project, Senators Kyrsten Sinema and Mark Kelly should be ashamed of their support for Roopali Desai,” he continued. “As Arizona’s home state senators, they have a responsibility to lead the fight against the nomination of such a radical, unqualified person, not blindly cheerlead for an extremist who doesn’t represent the values of their state.”
Joe Biden is selecting judges based in large part on race and gender, even though discrimination by federal officials is usually forbidden under Supreme Court decisions like Adarand Constructors v. Pena and Califano v. Goldfarb. In September 2023, the White House boasted that of his 140 judicial nominees, 62% were people of color and 62% were women. His judicial nominees were 31% Black, 18% Asian American and 18% Hispanic. These percentages are far higher than the percentage of the legal profession that is black, female, or persons of color. Only 5% of lawyers are black, while 76% of lawyers are non-Hispanic whites. This reflects the fact that most Americans are white, and only 13.6% of the U.S. population is black. The people qualified to be federal judges are experienced lawyers who have litigated in the federal courts. Such experienced lawyers are predominantly white and male. Only about 40% of all lawyers are female, and among experienced, full-time attorneys (such as law firm partners), the percentage is significantly lower than 40%. Even among the experienced Democratic lawyers one would expect Biden to pick judges from, a majority are white and a majority are male.
