(Queens Daily Eagle) U.S. Rep. Grace Meng is using her influence among national Democrats to push for the appointment of Muslim judges to the federal bench for the first time if her party wins back the White House.
Meng, the vice chair of the Democratic Party, delivered a letter to Joe Biden’s presidential campaign Oct. 9 asking him and running mate Kamala Harris to publicly commit to the appointment of Muslim judges to the federal judiciary should they win next month’s presidential election. The letter was drafted by the Muslim Bar Association of New York and signed by the South Asian Bar Association of New York.
“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.”
