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EDWARD JACOBS

17 December, 2024

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Ed Jacobs

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Exactly so, from today’s NYTimes:

“This unfortunate fact remains: We have a fundamentally broken process for choosing federal judges,” Mr. Mangi wrote. “This is no longer a system for evaluating fitness for judicial office. It is now a channel for the raising of money based on performative McCarthyism before video cameras, and for the dissemination of dark-money-funded attacks that especially target minorities.”

Adeel Mangi, a New York lawyer picked for a spot on the Philadelphia-based U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit…after Democratic senators cut a deal that in effect left him and other Biden appeals court nominees with no path to confirmation.

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