‘Trailblazing’: Biden pushes diversity in federal judge nominees

Biden’s nominees include three Black women and a man who could become the first Muslim-American federal judge in the US.

President Joe Biden has released his first slate of federal judicial nominations, 11 in total, including three Black women for federal circuit court vacancies and a man who could become the first Muslim-American federal judge. In a statement on Wednesday, Biden hailed the “broad diversity of background experience and perspective” of the nominees, which the White House said reflects “the President’s deeply-held conviction that the federal bench should reflect the full diversity of the American people”. “This trailblazing slate of nominees draws from the very best and brightest minds of the American legal profession,” Biden said.