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December 16, 2024policy changefederal judiciarycivil rightsjudiciarycivil rightsgovernment

Mangi withdraws his Third Circuit bid, calling the confirmation process fundamentally broken

Adeel Mangi withdrew from consideration for the Third Circuit in a letter to President Biden, 13 months after his nomination. He wrote that there was no pathway to confirmation and that the system had become a fundamentally broken process for choosing federal judges. He would have been the first Muslim American on a federal appeals court.