1. United States
2. Va.
3. Letter

Thank you for voting against Emil Bove. I contacted you several times about this vote and am happy that you decided he was, in fact, not fit for the job. The worst part of Bove’s confirmation is that Democrats could have filled the vacant seat on the Third Circuit in 2023, when they had the votes in the Senate to confirm Adeel Mangi, who would have been the first ever Muslim American to sit on a US court of appeals. The sad episode of losing the nomination of a fine candidate like Adeel Mangi to the likes of Emil Bove makes Senator Booker’s point: Democrats cannot accommodate Republicans, ever! We have ample evidence that such misguided efforts at faux bipartisanship will eventually be weaponized against Democrats!