Abid Qureshi has been nominated as the first Muslim to serve as federal judge. The Muslim-American judge was nominated by president Obama as the federal judge for the first time in history of the USA, according to a report from Huffington Post.
Abid Qureshi, a partner at Latham & Watkins in Washington, DC, was nominated to the US District Court for the District of Columbia.
“I am pleased to nominate Mr. Qureshi to serve on the United States District Court bench, and I am confident he will serve the American people with integrity and a steadfast commitment to justice.” President Obama said in a statement.
Senate Republicans have vowed not to hold any hearings on the matter after Obama nominated Judge Merrick Garland to the US Supreme Court in March to replace Justice Antonin Scalia, who died a month earlier.
According to source, Qureshi's nomination comes amid a racially charged presidential election campaign waged by GOP nominee Donald Trump. The real-estate mogul has suggested that a judge of Muslim or Latino descent could be unfit for the job due to his own controversial rhetoric aimed at both groups.
Over the course of his campaign, Trump has repeatedly vowed to keep some Muslims out of the US and subject some immigrants to ideological tests as a prerequisite to entry.
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