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Senate confirms Zahid Quraishi as nation's first Muslim federal judge


Senate confirms Zahid Quraishi as nation s first Muslim federal judge
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Washington The Senate on Thursday approved the historic nomination of Judge Zahid Quraishi to the U.S. District Court in New Jersey, making him the nation s first Muslim-American federal judge.
Quraishi received bipartisan backing from the upper chamber with its 81 to 16 vote to confirm him to the federal court in Trenton. The Senate Judiciary Committee approved his nomination with bipartisan support last week.
Quraishi has served as a U.S. magistrate judge since 2019 and, before his appointment, was a partner at Riker Danzig. He also worked as a federal prosecutor in the U.S. Attorney s Office in New Jersey for five years and as assistant chief counsel at the Department of Homeland Security. Quraishi served in the U.S. Army Judge Advocate General s Corps and deployed to Iraq in 2004 ....

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Zahid Quraishi: First Muslim U.S. federal judge from NJ


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A New Jersey magistrate judge and former prosecutor will become the first Muslim to serve on the federal bench, in a move hailed as a groundbreaking step toward representation and diversity.
Zahid Quraishi of Union County won broad bipartisan support from the U.S. Senate on Thursday, which confirmed his appointment as a U.S. district judge for the District of New Jersey, 81-16. He was the second New Jersey official in as many days to win approval to a federal judgeship. On Tuesday, senators voted 66-33 to appoint Bergen County administrator Julien X. Neals.
Senator Cory Booker, the New Jersey Democrat who recommended Quraishi, 46, for the position, lauded him as a person of conviction and patriotism who happens to also be Muslim. ....

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