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Any affiliation with “the Epstein world” renders you unfit for even an advisory function at Mayor Zohran Mamdani’s City Hall — however comparable ties to precise terrorists is no bar to even a prime place.
Seriously: City Hall says it rejected the one Jew it had thought-about for a panel that recommends potential judges on the grounds that John Leventhal had been an appellate lawyer for Ghislaine Maxwell and even — horrors! — “collected legal fees as such.”
The mayor says he doesn’t need his judicial-assessment group tainted by the “loss of faith” within the legal system represented by somebody in “the Epstein world.”
Hmm: The mayor’s chief counsel presents confidential, high-level legal and strategic steerage, and the man Mamdani selected for the job is Ramzi Kassem, who has seemingly spent his profession defending al Qaeda terrorists.
Is it any marvel many 9/11 households don’t need the mayor anyplace close to Ground Zero for the twenty fifth anniversary ceremonies?
Kassem waged a tenacious protection of al Qaeda stalwart Ahmed al-Darbi, who bombed a French oil tanker off the coast of Yemen in 2002, and did more legal work on behalf of a dozen different Guantanamo detainees.
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He additionally represented Columbia cheer-for-Hamas deportee-in-waiting Mahmoud Khalil, who most likely agrees with Kassem’s long-held perception that Jews got here to the Middle East “with the intention of conquering the land.”
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Mamdani additionally had no drawback naming a lawyer who focuses on defending cop-killers to the judicial-advisory board.
As reported by the Washington Free Beacon, nominee Soffiyah Elijah represented infamous Brinks-robbery murderers Marilyn Buck and Sundiata Acoli in court docket, and writes passionately in protection of Mumia Abu-Jamal, Mutulu Shakur and a surprising quantity of different cop-killers, whom she calls “political prisoners.”
Leventhal had a long and fairly distinguished profession as a state choose; the concept that he’s past the pale as a result of one of his former purchasers is a horrible individual, when the likes of Kassem and Elijah are simply high-quality, is solely laughable.
The mayor plainly has a litmus take a look at for his legal appointments: Jewish attorneys aren’t welcome, however the door is extensive open for advocates for probably the most violent radicals.
