How would Democrats react if a GOP nominee for a lifetime appointment to the federal bench had not only served on an advisory board of an antisemitic organization but also donated thousands of dollars to its cause? What if that nominee also served on the board of an organization founded by a cop killer? And what if that person then conveniently forgot to inform the U.S. Senate about this association?

Well, meet Adeel Mangi, Joe Biden’s nominee for the Third Circuit Court of Appeals. He is guilty of all the above. And a number of Democrats are concerned. So, in The New York Times this week, columnist Lydia Polgreen defended Magi in an exceptionally misleading piece headlined “The Islamophobic Smear Campaign Dividing Democrats.”