AMERICANALMANAC (Alan Benson) - Mamdani names lawyer for convicted cop-killers to judicial panel — after rejecting Jewish judge over Maxwell case
New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani appointed an attorney who built her career defending convicted killers of police officers to an influential judicial advisory panel, while blocking a former appellate judge whose representation of Ghislaine Maxwell was deemed disqualifying, a double standard critics call indefensible. Soffiyah Elijah, founder of the Alliance of Families for Justice, […] The post Mamdani names lawyer for convicted cop-killers to judicial panel — after rejecting Jewish judge over Maxwell case appeared first on American Almanac .
New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani appointed an attorney who built her career defending convicted killers of police officers to an influential judicial advisory panel, while blocking a former appellate judge whose representation of Ghislaine Maxwell was deemed disqualifying, a double standard critics call indefensible. Soffiyah Elijah, founder of the Alliance of Families for Justice, now holds one of 18 seats on a panel that will recommend candidates for New York City's criminal courts. Her client list reads like a roll call of the deadliest attacks on American law enforcement in the 1970s and 1980s: Sundiata Acoli, a Black Liberation Army member convicted of murdering New Jersey state trooper Werner Foerster in 1973; Marilyn Buck, a…Open