Black Lives Matter Lawyer Farah Tapped for Muslim Advocates Head

Muslim Advocates announced Tuesday civil rights attorney Omar Farah, who sued the Justice Department over its surveillance of the Black Lives Matter movement, as the group’s new executive director.

Farah, who takes the role Sept. 26, was previously a senior staff attorney at the Center for Constitutional Rights. He focused on litigation and advocacy on unlawful policing practices and counterterrorism practices.

Muslim Advocates is a national legal advocacy group working on issues like religious discrimination, hate crimes, and law enforcement bias against Muslim communities and other marginalized groups.

Farah told Bloomberg Law that he plans to take a methodical and ...