<div style="text-align: justify; "><b style="font-size: 1rem;">The US Senate approved Nusrat Choudhury as a federal judge on Thursday, making her the first Muslim woman and the first Bangladeshi-American to serve on the federal bench.</b><br></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br></div><div style="text-align: justify; ">Choudhury, the legal director of the ACLU of Illinois, was confirmed as the US District Court for the Eastern District of New York on a 50-49 vote, reports CNN.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br></div><div style="text-align: justify;">President Joe Biden nominated the civil rights attorney as one of seven federal judge candidates in January 2022. Biden appointed Zahid Quraishi as a district judge for New Jersey earlier in 2021, making him the first Muslim American federal judge in US history.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Choudhury, as the legal director of ACLU, has fought for police reform and litigated against discriminatory methods, said the report.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br></div><div style="text-align: justify;">According to the ACLU, among the problems she has taken on include the New York Police Department's post-9/11 monitoring techniques, which have been denounced as discriminating towards Muslim Americans, and the Milwaukee Police Department's stop-and-frisk program.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br></div><div style="text-align: justify;">“Nusrat Choudhury is a trailblazing civil rights lawyer with a remarkable record of advancing equal justice for all in our nation,” Anthony Romero, ACLU’s executive director, said in a statement. “The confirmation is an exclamation point on her long track record of protecting civil liberties and civil rights.”</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Joe Manchin, a conservative Democrat, voted against her confirmation because he believed some of her earlier statements made her prejudiced against police enforcement, the report also said.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br></div><div style="text-align: justify;">“As a staunch supporter of our men and women in uniform, I opposed Ms Choudhury’s nomination,” Manchin said in a statement. UNB</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br></div><div style="text-align: justify; ">bnbd24/kh</div>