Metropolis Desk-
Nusrat Choudhury, a civil rights attorney, got approval from the US Senate on Thursday to the US District Court for the Eastern District of New York. She is the country’s first Bangladeshi-American and female Muslim federal judge.
Previously, Choudhury worked on racial justice and national security issues for the national ACLU for the majority of her professional career. In January 2022, she received US President Joe Biden’s nomination for the federal bench.
After giving contradictory responses to the question of whether she had said at a 2015 event at Princeton University that police killings of unarmed Black males happened “every day,” she came under fire from some Senate Republicans.
Choudhury served as a law clerk for a judge on the US Second Circuit Court of Appeals and the neighboring Southern District of New York trial court. Earlier, Biden appointed US District Judge Zahid Quraishi, the country’s first Muslim judge.
