AND a judge originally from Bangladesh, and was selected by President Joe Biden for a seat on the bench of the United States District Court for the Eastern District of New York, winning the title of first female Muslim judge which will sit in a United States federal court.
Nusrat Choudhury a Muslim judge in federal court
Nusrat Choudhuryspent most of his professional career at the national ACLU, theAmerican Civil Liberties Union, where she dealt with racial justice and national security issues. His job was to oversee a group that focuses on issues including First Amendment rights and government transparency. But also voting rights, access to reproductive health care, and the rights of foster children and people in prisons and jails.
Nusrat Choudhury spent the majority of her professional career at the American Civil Liberties Union, where she worked on racial justice (Getty Tom Williams/CQ Roll Call)
The big processes
She recently handled the indictment for fraud and money laundering of the New York Republican Congressman George Santosbut also of the trials of the singer R. Kelly, the Mexican drug trafficker El Chapo and the leader of the Nxivm sect Keith Raniere.
Against violent uniforms with African Americans
Criticized by some Senate Republicans after her remarks at a 2015 event at Princeton University in which she said that «the killing of unarmed black men by police happens every day in America», to vote against her was also a conservative Democrat, the only one, Joe Manchin as a “strong supporter of our men and women in uniform”.
Nusrat Choudhury, civil rights first
But according to Senate President Chuck Schumer «Choudhury’s experience as a talented civil rights lawyer it has prepared her to serve with integrity and professionalism on the federal bench by enabling her to administer justice with fairness and a profound respect for the rule of law. Our courts are strongest when they reflect the diversity and dynamism of our democracy.”
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