It Took 228 Years For An American President To Nominate A Muslim For The Federal Bench

The U.S. Constitution was ratified on June 21, 1788. Until this week, however, no U.S. president had used their constitutional authority to nominate judges to name a Muslim lawyer to a lifetime appointment on the federal bench. President Obama broke that streak on Tuesday, with his nomination of attorney Abid Riaz Qureshi to sit on a federal district court in the District of Columbia. Qureshi, an honors graduate of Harvard Law School who’s worked at a large law firm his entire career and chaired its pro bono committee, possesses the conventional qualifications for a nominee to this position....
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