Kash Patel’s nomination to serve as the next FBI director is historic for many reasons. He’ll be the first Indian-American and the first public defender to serve as FBI director, respectively.

It’s that last feat that is most important to me considering I worked with Kash at the Federal Public Defender’s office in Miami from 2009 to 2014.

It’s also the one that I expected Democrats to be most excited about, yet they never mention it in their screeds attacking Kash Patel. The Kash that I know and worked with isn’t the caricature you read about in the press that will “lock up his enemies.”

The Public Defender of the Southern District of Florida’s office where we worked was reputed for being one of, if not the best, public defense offices in the country. The defender took her office’s reputation seriously and only hired people like Kash who were levelheaded, even keeled, and fact-based in their arguments.

Kash fought for due process for his clients no matter what they were accused of doing. He defended gun smugglers, an alleged........

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