Senate Democrat Concerned About Historic Muslim Judicial Nominee

Democrats are losing support among their ranks for President Joe Biden’s historic Muslim appellate nominee over his ties to a group conservatives have called an anti-police organization.

Sen. Catherine Cortez Masto of Nevada is the first Democratic senator to publicly voice concerns about Adeel Mangi, who serves on the advisory board of the Alliance of Families for Justice. The organization was co-founded by Kathy Boudin, who was convicted of felony murder for her role in a Brink’s armored truck robbery in Nanuet, New York, that led to the deaths of two police officers in 1981.

Cortez Masto told Bloomberg Government ...