周四，扎希德·库赖希被美国参议院确认为第一位穆斯林美国联邦法官。
库赖希目前是一名治安法官，他将在美国新泽西州地区法院任职。他以压倒性的81票对16票获得两党支持。
纽约参议院多数党领袖查克·舒默(Chuck Schumer)周三在投票前的发言中表示:“库赖希将是美国历史上第一位担任第三条联邦法官的美国穆斯林。”。“美国第三大宗教，他将成为第一个担任第三条法官的人。”
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在这张2021年4月28日的档案照片中，扎希德·库赖希被提名为美国地方法院法官
“我们不仅要扩大人口多样性，还要扩大职业多样性，我知道总统[乔]拜登在这一点上同意我的观点，这也是我将要着手做的事情，”舒默继续说道。
根据他在罗格斯大学网站上的传记，在被任命为治安法官之前，库赖希曾是Riker Danzig白领犯罪辩护和调查小组的正式主席，也是该公司的第一位首席多元化官，他在罗格斯大学被列为副教授。在此之前，该大学表示，他曾在新泽西州美国检察官办公室担任助理美国检察官五年多。
汤姆·威廉姆斯/普尔/法新社通过盖蒂图像，文件
在这张2021年4月28日的档案照片中，扎希德·库赖希被提名为美国地方法院法官
今年3月，拜登提名了一个由11名司法提名人组成的多元化团体，其中包括库赖希在内的几名被提名人，他表示，如果得到法官的认可，他们将创造历史。
拜登的内阁是美国历史上最多样化的内阁。总统内阁的一半成员是女性，大多数是有色人种。拜登的内阁也有一些第一，包括第一位担任财政部长的女性，第一位黑人国防部长，第一位被参议院确认为内阁成员的公开同性恋男子，以及第一位印第安人内阁部长。
Senate confirms 1st Muslim American federal judge in US history
Zahid Quraishi was confirmed as the first Muslim American federal judge by the United States Senate on Thursday.
Quraishi, currently a magistrate judge, will serve on the U.S. District Court for the District of New Jersey. He was confirmed with an overwhelmingly bipartisan vote of 81-16.
"Mr. Quraishi will be the first American Muslim in United States history to serve as an Article III federal judge," Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., said in floor remarks on Wednesday ahead of the vote. "The third largest religion in the United States, and he will become the first to ever serve as an Article III judge."
"We must expand not only demographic diversity, but professional diversity, and I know that President[Joe] Bidenagrees with me on this, and this will be something that I will set out to do," Schumer continued.
Before he was appointed as magistrate judge, Quraishi was formally chair of Riker Danzig’s White Collar Criminal Defense and Investigations Group and the firm's first chief diversity officer, according to his biography on the website of Rutgers University, where he is listed as an adjunct professor. Before that, the university says he served for over five years as an assistant United States Attorney in the United States Attorney’s Office for the District of New Jersey.
In March, Biden nominated a diverse group of 11 judicial nominees, several of whom, including Quraishi, he said would make history if confirmed to the bench.
Biden’s Cabinet is the most diverse in U.S. history. Half of the president's Cabinet is made up of women and the majority are people of color. Biden’s Cabinet has a few firsts too -- including the first woman to serve as treasury secretary, the first Black defense secretary, the first openly gay man confirmed by the Senate to a Cabinet role and the first Native American Cabinet secretary.
