Muslim Judges - CathNews New Zealand https://cathnews.co.nz Catholic News New Zealand Thu, 15 Oct 2020 04:29:58 +0000 en-NZ hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.7.1 https://cathnews.co.nz/wp-content/uploads/2020/05/cropped-cathnewsfavicon-32x32.jpg Muslim Judges - CathNews New Zealand https://cathnews.co.nz 32 32 70145804 Leading Democrat urges Biden to appoint Muslim federal judges if elected https://cathnews.co.nz/2020/10/15/biden-to-appoint-muslim-federal-judges-if-elected/ Thu, 15 Oct 2020 06:51:02 +0000 https://cathnews.co.nz/?p=131595 The vice-chair of the Democratic Party is calling on Joe Biden to commit to appointing, for the first time, Muslim judges to the federal bench if he were to win November's presidential election. House Representative Grace Meng made the request in a letter to the Biden campaign last week, asking the former vice president and Read more

Leading Democrat urges Biden to appoint Muslim federal judges if elected... Read more]]> The vice-chair of the Democratic Party is calling on Joe Biden to commit to appointing, for the first time, Muslim judges to the federal bench if he were to win November's presidential election.

House Representative Grace Meng made the request in a letter to the Biden campaign last week, asking the former vice president and his running mate Kamala Harris to publicly make the commitment.

"The judiciary today does not reflect the America it presides over," the letter states. "As of 2020, there is to our knowledge no appointed member of the federal judiciary who identifies as Muslim, nor has there ever been."

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