WASHINGTON, D.C. – Today, U.S. Senator Cory Booker (D-NJ) applauded the Senate Judiciary Committee’s vote to advance to the full Senate the nomination of Adeel Abdullah Mangi to serve on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit. The advancement comes a month after Booker, a member of the Judiciary Committee, introduced Mangi at his nomination hearing before the Committee.
“Adeel Mangi is an impressive and accomplished lawyer who has spent much of his career serving his community and advocating for religious freedom and tolerance on behalf of people of all faiths and backgrounds,” said Senator Booker. “Mangi is a standout figure in New Jersey’s legal landscape. It speaks volumes that his exceptional legal abilities are only exceeded by his character and unwavering commitment to fairness in the administration of justice. I am grateful that the Senate Judiciary Committee has voted to advance his nomination to the full Senate and I look forward to his confirmation to serve on the Third Circuit as the nation’s first Muslim-American federal appellate judge.”
A 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’s 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.
The 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.
The United States Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit serves New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Delaware, and the Virgin Islands.
Booker has served on the Senate Judiciary Committee since 2018. He has been a leader in the Senate on criminal justice and policing reform since he was first elected in 2013. Booker has introduced numerous criminal justice reform proposals, including: the Fair Chance Act, the MERCY Act, the Dignity for Incarcerated Women Act, the Second Look Act, the Justice in Policing Act, and the EQUAL Act. He was also a key architect of the most sweeping overhaul of the criminal justice system in decades, the First Step Act, which was signed into law in 2018.