WASHINGTON Sen. Catherine Cortez Masto (D-Nev.) announced late Tuesday that she wont support President Joe Bidens judicial nominee, Adeel Mangi , caving to an ugly campaign waged by the GOP and throwing the fate of his nomination into question.

I cannot support this nominee, Cortez Masto said in a statement. Mr. Mangis affiliation with the Alliance of Families for Justice is deeply concerning.

She said AFJ, a New York City-based nonprofit organization that provides counseling services and legal aid to the family members of people who have been incarcerated, did two things that she cant get past.

This organization has sponsored a fellowship in the name of Kathy Boudin, a member of the domestic terrorist organization Weather Underground, and advocated for the release of individuals convicted of killing police officers, she said.

There are so many problems with this argument that its hard to know where to begin.

And the bigger question is whether Cortez Masto, the first Democrat to publicly oppose Mangi, realizes that she is giving in to a monthslong campaign of baseless and Islamophobic attacks on a historic judicial nominee that Republicans simply dont want confirmed to a pivotal seat on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 3rd Circuit.