{"database": "press", "table": "releases", "rows": [["https://www.booker.senate.gov/news/press/booker-applauds-historic-nomination-of-adeel-abdullah-mangi-to-us-third-circuit-court-of-appeals", "Booker Applauds Historic Nomination of Adeel Abdullah Mangi to U.S. Third Circuit Court of Appeals", "2023-11-15", "2023", "2023-11", "Democrat", "Senate", "NJ", "Cory A. Booker", "B001288", "www.booker.senate.gov", "booker", "https://www.booker.senate.gov/news/press", "scraper", "WASHINGTON, D.C. \u2014 Today, U.S. Senator Cory Booker, a member of the Senate Judiciary Committee, applauded President Biden\u2019s nomination of Adeel Abdullah Mangi to the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit. If confirmed, Mangi would be the first Muslim American to serve as a federal appellate court judge.\n\n\u201cHaving come to know Adeel Mangi over the years as a fixture in the New Jersey legal community, I have seen firsthand that he is a person of integrity and deep conviction with an unflinching commitment to fairness and equality,\u201d said Senator Booker. \u201cHe represents the best of New Jersey: Mangi is a preeminent lawyer who has secured landmark legal victories, and I have the utmost faith in his ability to serve the people of New Jersey and our country fairly and impartially on the Third Circuit Court of Appeals. I thank President Biden for this historic nomination, and I look forward to introducing Adeel Mangi to my colleagues on the Senate Judiciary Committee for his hearing.\u201d\n\nA resident of Jersey City for over 20 years, Adeel Mangi is a Partner at Patterson Belknap Webb & Tyler in New York. Born in Karachi, Pakistan, Mangi received his B.A./Law degree, First Class, from the University of Oxford in 1998. He attended Lincoln\u2019s Inn and the Inns of Court School of Law in London and qualified as a British Barrister at Law in 1999. He received his LL.M from Harvard Law School in 2000 and has since worked at Patterson as a civil litigator representing an array of clients in complex high-stakes cases. He has devoted thousands of hours to pro bono service, filed numerous amicus briefs in the federal appellate courts and before the U.S. Supreme Court on behalf of cross-faith religious coalitions, and, among his many other legal accomplishments, successfully fought on behalf of Muslim communities seeking to build and open mosques in Bernards Township and Bayonne.\n\nThe nomination comes two years after Booker spoke in support of and voted to confirm the first Muslim-American federal judge to the federal bench, Zahid Quraishi, who now serves on the U.S. District Court for the District of New Jersey. Booker also voted this summer to confirm the first female Muslim-American federal judge, Nusrat Choudhury.\n\nThe United States Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit serves New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Delaware, and the Virgin Islands.\n\nPresident Joe Biden has nominated and the Senate has confirmed eight judges to the U.S. District Court for the District of New Jersey: Judges Julien X. Neals, Zahid Quraishi, Christine O\u2019Hearn, Karen Williams, Georgette Castner, Evelyn Padin, Michael Fabiarz, and Robert Kirsch. In recent months, President Biden nominated Jamel Semper and Edward Kiel to the U.S. District Court for the District of New Jersey and Senator Booker spoke in support of their nominations.", 1, "2026-03-30T01:40:41Z", "2026-04-08T01:01:09Z"]], "columns": ["url", "title", "date", "year", "month", "party", "chamber", "state", "member_name", "bioguide_id", "domain", "scraper", "source", "date_source", "text", "has_text", "collected_at", "updated_at"], "primary_keys": ["url"], "primary_key_values": ["https://www.booker.senate.gov/news/press/booker-applauds-historic-nomination-of-adeel-abdullah-mangi-to-us-third-circuit-court-of-appeals"], "units": {}, "query_ms": 0.8049120660871267, "source": "dwillis/congress-press", "source_url": "https://github.com/dwillis/congress-press", "license": "MIT", "license_url": "https://github.com/dwillis/congress-press/blob/main/LICENSE"}