'Disgusting': Dark Money Group Unveils Wildly Islamophobic Ads Against Biden Court Pick

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Source: Huff Post

Feb 16, 2024, 05:30 AM EST


WASHINGTON ― An influential conservative group this week launched a blatantly Islamophobic and misleading ad campaign targeting one of President Joe Biden’s Muslim judicial nominees, Adeel Mangi.

The Judicial Crisis Network, a right-wing judicial advocacy group known for its steady stream of anonymous funding and a previous multimillion-dollar campaign aimed at smearing then-Supreme Court nominee Ketanji Brown Jackson, unveiled digital ads on Tuesday that attempt to pressure Sens. Jon Tester (D-Mont.) and Bob Casey (D-Pa.) to oppose Mangi’s confirmation. Both Democrats are up for reelection in November.

JCN’s attacks on Mangi, a 23-year civil litigator based in New Jersey who is on track to be the nation’s first Muslim appeals court judge, are as deceptive as they are ugly. The group’s ads accuse Mangi of being a “radical” and an “antisemite,” and of advising an organization that teaches students “to hate Israel, to hate America and to support global terrorism.”

The ads even use video footage of the second plane crashing into the World Trade Center in the Sept. 11, 2001 terrorist attack, overlaid with a headline about Mangi.

Read more: https://www.huffpost.com/entry/muslim-judicial-nominee-adeel-mangi-jcn-islamophobic-campaign_n_65ce35d6e4b043f1c0aa4231

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1. I hope Muslim Americans are paying attention to how Republicans treat them.

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2. Jewish groups are defending Mangi.

“ADL is compelled to speak out about the inappropriate and prejudicial treatment of Adeel Abdullah Mangi,” the ADL said in a January statement.

“Just as associating Jewish Americans with certain views or beliefs regarding Israeli government actions would be deemed antisemitic, berating the first American Muslim federal appellate judicial nominee with endless questions that appear to have been motivated by bias towards his religion is profoundly wrong,” said the organization. “This was an attempt to create controversy where one did not exist.”

Perhaps most notably, more than a dozen major Jewish groups have since endorsed Mangi’s nomination and praised his record of defending religious freedom.

“Having ethical and unbiased judges is ingrained in our Jewish teachings in which we are taught that ‘judges need to be people of strength through good deeds,’” the National Council of Jewish Women, Bend the Arc: Jewish Action and others said in a joint letter to senators. “It is clear to us that Adeel A. Mangi is a person of strength and good deeds, as evidenced by his career, devotion to his community, and commitment to religious freedom and civil rights.”

https://www.huffpost.com/entry/muslim-judicial-nominee-adeel-mangi-jcn-islamophobic-campaign_n_65ce35d6e4b043f1c0aa4231

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3. Over a dozen Jewish groups have endorsed Mangi as a supporter of religious freedom

GOP is pretty blatantly bigoted and throwing raw meat out to their idiot base. They use racism/Islamophobia because they don't have anything useful or productive to offer the American people.

Republicans are generally insulting to any Dem appointee, but this is a deplorable new low. I remember Lindsey Graham asking Jewish Elena Kagan what she does on Christmas.