ACLU lawyer Nusrat Jahan Choudhury won confirmation as the first Muslim woman and first Bangladeshi-American to serve as a life-tenured federal judge.
The Senate confirmed the civil rights lawyer on Thursday, 50-49, to a seat on the Brooklyn-based US District for the Eastern District of New York.
The Senate confirmed the first Muslim life-tenured federal judge, Zahid Quraishi, in 2021 to a seat on the US District Court for the District of New Jersey.
Choudhury, 46, spent her entire legal career at the ACLU and its affiliates, most recently as the legal director of the ACLU of Illinois.
She ...
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