Non-Muslim nominees to the federal bench are not asked to condemn terrorism, and Mangi's hearing is a callback to how Republicans treated Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson in her confirmation hearing.
Joe Manchin won't support Mangi because of bullshit "bipartisanship," and two Democratic senators say he's anti-police (echoing McConnell), so despite Mangi's excellent qualifications and support from diverse groups, the first Muslim nominee to the federal bench won't serve.
@MariaHill
Truly awful treatment of an extremely qualified nominee. The one thing we could count on from Manchin was voting for judicial nominees and now he’s screwing up even that. And WTF is up with Nevada?
@PeterLG How 53 senators vote on a nominee does not measure the level of bigotry of the United States population. You can make that argument if you'd like, but you need a different set of data considering that the US Senate is a greatly undemocratic institution and white people's votes are overrepresented. (Which also makes changing it nearly impossible, because their representatives won't give up the slightest bit of power so that others can have more of a say.)
Democracies, like the UK, USA, and Australia, reconfirm their bigotry every general election. None of us have governments that are truly representative of our populations, and that isn't likely to change moving forward precisely because rich, powerful, white christians run the countries and the general populace doesn't care enough to force the change necessary.
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