New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani stacked his new judicial advisory panel with a lawyer who defended convicted cop killers, an apologist for accused assassin Luigi Mangione, and a former sex worker, while shutting out every Jewish attorney who sought a seat. Mamdani's office announced the 18-member Advisory Committee on the Judiciary in a news […] The post Mamdani's judicial screening panel includes zero Jewish members but seats cop-killer lawyer and Mangione apologist appeared first on American Almanac .
New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani stacked his new judicial advisory panel with a lawyer who defended convicted cop killers, an apologist for accused assassin Luigi Mangione, and a former sex worker, while shutting out every Jewish attorney who sought a seat. Mamdani's office announced the 18-member Advisory Committee on the Judiciary in a news release last week, describing its appointees as law professors and three former state judges who would bring "a diverse range of legal expertise" to the task of screening candidates for the bench. What the release did not mention, and what critics noticed immediately, is that not a single Jewish lawyer made the cut, even as the panel found room for members whose public records read like a catalog…Open
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
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