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<ul class="summary-list"><li>President <keyword id="99719" type="PERSON" weightage="60" keywordseo="Joe-Biden">Joe Biden</keyword> announced his first judicial picks on Tuesday.</li><li>He noted the nominations would boost the diversity of the federal judiciary, with a number of firsts.</li><li>These included the first Black and Muslim Americans on certain courts.</li></ul>President Joe Biden announced his first judicial picks on Tuesday, noting that his nominations would boost the diversity of the federal judiciary.The White House said in a statement: "These highly-qualified candidates reflect the President's deeply-held conviction that the federal bench should reflect the full diversity of the American people - both in background and in professional experience."<a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/federal-judges-trump-appointed-stats-demographics-names-database-2021-3">Read more: Trump appointed 28% of all the federal judges in the US, and they could mold American life for decades to come</a>It continued: "These nominees consist of attorneys who have excelled in the legal field in a wide range of positions, including as renowned jurists, public defenders, prosecutors, in the private sector, in the military, and as public servants at all levels of government."The 10 nominees announced included sitting judges, attorneys, and former federal prosecutors, many of whom would make history in their new roles.They are:<ul><li><a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/judge-ketanji-brown-jackson-biden-supreme-court-nominee-stephen-breyer-2021-3">US District Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson</a> to the US Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit.</li><li>Maryland US Magistrate Judge Deborah Boardman to the US District Court for the District of Maryland.</li><li>Judge Lydia Griggsby to the US District Court for the District of Maryland.</li><li>County Counsel and Acting County Administrator for Bergen County, New Jersey, Julien Neals to the US District Court for the District of New Jersey. </li><li>Judge Florence Y. Pan to the US District Court for the District of Columbia.</li><li>Former federal public defender and law partner Candace Jackson-Akiwumi to the the US Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit.</li><li>Intellectual-property lawyer Tiffany Cunningham to the US Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit.</li><li>Judge Zahid N. Quraishi to the US District Court for the District of New Jersey.</li><li>Law partner Regina Rodriguez to the US District Court for the District of Colorado.</li><li>Law partner Margaret Strickland to the US District Court for the District of New Mexico.</li><li>Judge Rupa Ranga Puttagunta to the Superior Court of the District of Columbia. </li></ul>And here are the milestones these appointees would make if approved by the Senate, <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/legal-issues/biden-judicial-nominees-ketanji--brown-jackson/2021/03/29/38efad34-7773-11eb-8115-9ad5e9c02117_story.html">according to The Washington Post</a>:<ul><li>Cunningham would be the first Black judge on the Federal Circuit.</li><li>Jackson-Akiwumi and Cunningham would also be the only Black judges on their respective courts.</li><li>Quraishi would be the first Muslim American on a District Court bench.</li><li>Pan would be the first Asian American woman to serve on her court. </li><li>Griggsby would be the first woman of color to serve on her court.</li></ul>"This trailblazing slate of nominees draws from the very best and brightest minds of the American legal profession," Biden said in his statement."Each is deeply qualified and prepared to deliver justice faithfully under our Constitution and impartially to the American people - and together they represent the broad diversity of background, experience, and perspective that makes our nation strong."

Biden has announced his first list of judicial appointees, and they are poised to make history

<div class="KonaFilter image-container float_right"><div class="image on-image">APShira Scheindlin</div></div>A federal <a href="http://www.businessinsider.com/federal-judge-blocks-stop-and-frisk-ruling-2013-10#ixzz2jKqAVpVm" target="_blank">appeals court on Thursday blocked a judge's order</a> that required changes to the New York City Police Department's stop-and-frisk practices. 
The 2nd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals also removed Judge Shira Scheindlin from the case, saying she had created an "appearance of impropriety" by, among other things, granting a "series of media interviews and public statements purporting to respond publicly to criticism of the District Court."
Scheindlin gave three high-profile media interviews in the midst of the trial. One <a href="http://www.newyorker.com/reporting/2013/05/27/130527fa_fact_toobin" target="_blank">was with The New Yorker's Jeffrey Toobin</a>. Another was an extensive, free-flowing interview to The Associated Press that came in May, right before the trial's closing arguments.
In that interview, she openly criticized the Bloomberg administration for looking into her record and pushing a stat that revealed 60% of her 15 written "search-and-seizure" rulings since she took the bench in 1994 had gone against <keyword id="6355470" type="CITY" weightage="100" keywordseo="Law">law</keyword> enforcement. Reports said that the statistic was pushed onto the media by the Bloomberg administration.
"If that's true, that's quite disgraceful," Scheindlin said. "It was very discouraging and upsetting. I can't say it has no toll."
The 2nd Circuit Court ruled that Schiendlin "ran afoul" of a section in the Code of Conduct for U.S. judges that states a "judge should avoid impropriety and the appearance of impropriety in all activities."
Here's the key part of the ruling:
Upon review of the record in these cases, we conclude that the District Judge ran afoul of the Code of Conduct for United States Judges, Canon 2 ("A judge should avoid impropriety and the appearance of impropriety in all activities."); see also Canon 3(C)(1) ("A judge shall disqualify himself or herself in a proceeding in which the judge's impartiality might reasonably be questioned . . . ."), and that the appearance of partiality surrounding this litigation was compromised by the District Judge's improper application of the Court's "related case rule," see Transfer of Related Cases, S.D.N.Y. &amp; E.D.N.Y. Local Rule 13(a), and by a series of media interviews and public statements purporting to respond publicly to criticism of the District Court.
Accordingly, we conclude that, in the interest, and appearance, of fair and impartial administration of justice, UPON REMAND, these cases shall be assigned to a different District Judge, chosen randomly under the established practices of the District Court for the Southern District of New York.
Here's the full ruling, <a href="http://legaltimes.typepad.com/files/frisk-remand.pdf" target="_blank">via the Legal Times</a>:
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Here Are The Media Interviews That Got The Stop-And-Frisk Judge Removed From The Case

By Lalit K Jha Washington, May 5 () US President Donald Trump on Monday nominated an Indian-American attorney to a federal court in New York.Nominated as the judge of the US District Court for the Eastern District of New York, Saritha Komatireddy, is a prosecutor and teaches law at the Columbia Law School.Trump sent her nomination to the US Senate on Monday, the White House said.Earlier, she has clerked under the former judge of the same district, Brett Kavanaugh.Komatireddy is currently Deputy Chief of General Crimes in the United States Attorney's Office for the Eastern District of New York.Previously she was Acting Deputy Chief, International Narcotics and Money Laundering (June, 2018 - January, 2019) and Computer Hacking and Intellectual Property Coordinator (2016-2019).Upon graduating from the prestigious Harvard Law School, Komatireddy served as a law clerk to then-Judge Brett Kavanaugh of the United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit.She also served as counsel to the National Commission on the BP Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill and Offshore Drilling.On February 12 this year, Trump had announced his intent to nominate Komatireddy to serve as a United States District Judge for the United States District Court for the Eastern District of New York. LKJ AD

Trump nominates Indian-American attorney as federal court judge

By Lalit K Jha(Eds: Updating with more inputs) Washington, May 5 () US President Donald Trump has nominated Indian-American woman attorney Saritha Komatireddy as a judge to a federal court in New York.Komatireddy, a prosecutor who also teaches law at the prestigious Columbia Law School, has been nominated to the US District Court for the Eastern District of New York.Trump sent her nomination to the US Senate on Monday, the White House said.Earlier, she clerked under former judge of the same district Brett Kavanaugh.Komatireddy is currently Deputy Chief of General Crimes in the United States Attorney's Office for the Eastern District of New York.Previously she was Acting Deputy Chief, International Narcotics and Money Laundering (June, 2018 - January, 2019) and Computer Hacking and Intellectual Property Coordinator (2016-2019).Upon graduating from the prestigious Harvard Law School, Komatireddy served as a law clerk to then-Judge Kavanaugh of the United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit.She also served as counsel to the National Commission on the BP Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill and Offshore Drilling.On February 12, Trump announced his intent to nominate Komatireddy to serve as a United States District Judge for the United States District Court for the Eastern District of New York. LKJ AD CPS AKJ CPS

Trump nominates Indian-American woman attorney as federal court judge in NY

<ul class="summary-list"><li>Ronnie Abrams, the US district judge in the FTX fraud case, stepped down and has been replaced.</li><li>She said that her husband is a partner at Davis Polk &amp; Wardwell LLP, which last year advised FTX.</li></ul>The judge in the FTX fraud case recused herself because her husband works for a firm that advised the company last year.Ronnie Abrams, a judge at the US District Court for the Southern District of New York, said in a filing on Friday that she was stepping down. She said that her husband is a partner at New York City-based law firm Davis Polk &amp; Wardwell LLP, which last year advised FTX and represented parties "that may be adverse to FTX and Defendant Bankman-Fried in other proceedings.""My husband has had no involvement in any of these representations," Abrams said, adding that the matters were "confidential" and that the court didn't know the substance of them."Nonetheless, to avoid any possible conflict, or the appearance of one, the Court hereby recuses itself from this action," Abrams said.Damian Williams, the US Attorney for the Southern District of New York, <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/sam-bankman-fried-criminal-charges-fraud-conspiracy-campaign-finance-ftx-2022-12">filed an indictment</a> against FTX and Alameda Research cofounder Sam Bankman-Fried on December 9. The former crypto mogul was accused of <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/sam-bankman-fried-ftx-sbf-alameda-sentenced-115-years-prison-2022-12">eight criminal charges</a>, including wire fraud and conspiracy to commit money laundering.<a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/sam-bankman-fried-arrested-in-the-bahamas-authorities-say-2022-12">Bankman-Fried was arrested</a> on December 12 in the Bahamas at the request of the US government, and his indictment was <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/sam-bankman-fried-criminal-charges-fraud-conspiracy-campaign-finance-ftx-2022-12">unsealed</a> the next day. The 30-year-old was extradited to the US, where he was <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/sam-bankman-fried-bail-ftx-manhattan-court-appearance-hearing-2022-12" rel="">released on $250 million bail</a>.Former Alameda Research CEO Caroline Ellison and FTX cofounder and former CTO Gary Wang were both added as defendants on December 19. <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/ftx-alameda-caroline-ellison-gary-wang-plead-guilty-fraud-2022-12">Ellison and Wang pleaded guilty</a> to the charges against them.On Tuesday, the case was reassigned to Lewis A. Kaplan, a senior judge at the court, legal filings show. Kaplan has also presided over writer <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/e-jean-carroll-is-suing-trump-again-heres-where-the-litigation-stands-2022-11">E. Jean Carroll's lawsuit against former president Donald Trump</a> for allegedly attacking her reputation by denying her rape allegation.

The judge in the FTX fraud case stepped down because her husband works for a firm that advised Sam Bankman-Fried's crypto exchange last year

<ul class="summary-list"><li>Allen Winsor, 46, has been a US District Judge in the Northern District of Florida since 2019.</li><li>He's now overseeing the Walt Disney Parks and Resorts' lawsuit against Gov. Ron DeSantis of Florida.</li></ul>US District Judge Allen Winsor is now presiding over <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/disney-desantis-feud-timeline-parental-rights-education-florida-2023-4">Walt Disney Parks and Resorts' lawsuit against Gov. Ron DeSantis</a> of Florida, and it could be a good sign for the governor.The previous federal judge assigned to the case, <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/trump-nominated-judge-will-now-hear-disneys-lawsuit-against-desantis-2023-6">Mark Walker, recused himself from the case</a> because "a relative within the third degree" held 30 shares of The Walt Disney Co. stock, Insider's Kimberly Leonard reported last week.On Friday, <a href="https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/23834043-winsor-disney-desantis-schedule" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Winsor set the schedule</a> for the Disney-DeSantis case, setting deadlines to submit and reply to motions by July and August, respectively.<h2>Winsor's background</h2>Winsor, 46, has been a judge in the <a href="https://www.fjc.gov/history/judges/winsor-allen-cothrel" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Northern District of Florida</a> since 2019.The US Senate <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/nuclear-option-gorsuch-filibuster-senate-2017-4">used the so-called nuclear option</a> to approve his appointment after then-President Donald Trump nominated him. Sen. Joe Manchin of West Virginia was the lone Democrat in the 54-44 vote to confirm Winsor, <a href="https://ballotpedia.org/Allen_Winsor" target="_blank" rel="noopener">according to BallotPedia</a>.Before he became a US district judge, Winsor was a judge in Florida's First District Court of Appeal from 2016-2019. He was Florida's solicitor general and worked in private practice before that.He graduated from Auburn University in 1997 and got his law degree from the University of Florida in 2002.Winsor was born in Orlando in September 1976.<h2>Winsor previously dismissed a lawsuit challenging the 'Don't Say Gay' bill</h2>In February 2023, Winsor issued a 21-page ruling dismissing a lawsuit challenging Florida's Parental Rights in Education Act, which <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/fight-over-floridas-dont-say-gay-bill-explained-2022-2">opponents called the "Don't Say Gay" bill</a>.Winsor particularly took issue that the plaintiffs in the suit — who were parents, students, and teachers — didn't allege harm or seek monetary damage, he <a href="https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/23834028-winsor-dismissal-dont-say-gay" target="_blank" rel="noopener">wrote in his ruling</a>."Plaintiffs have shown a strident disagreement with the new law, and they have alleged facts to show its very existence causes them deep hurt and disappointment," Winsor wrote. "But to invoke a federal court's jurisdiction, they must allege more. Their failure to do so requires dismissal."He went through several examples where the plaintiffs said they were deprived of free speech or discriminated against because of the law, and cited specific details contending they weren't, legally speaking."It does not matter that removing a library book, changing curriculum, or denying access to extracurricular activities could constitute a cognizable injury," Winsor wrote. "What matters is whether Plaintiffs have alleged that they themselves suffered a cognizable injury traceable to the Provision's enforcement and redressable by an injunction against it. They have not."<h2>A human rights group accused Winsor of being a 'conservative ideologue'</h2>Winsor has been a member of <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/inside-the-federalist-society-conference-conservative-lawyer-summit-2021-11">The Federalist Society</a>, the influential conservative legal organization, since 2005, his <a href="https://www.judiciary.senate.gov/imo/media/doc/Winsor%20SJQ.pdf" target="_blank" rel="noopener">questionnaire for the Senate Judiciary Committee</a> shows.He moderated a panel for the group in 2017 titled, "<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s-71pu5xnOA" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Combating Federal Overreach</a>." It was held at Disney's BoardWalk Inn at the Walt Disney World Resort in Lake Buena Vista, Florida.In the hour-and-a-half-long conversation, four state solicitors general discussed various federal laws and lawsuits that they felt impeded states' rights. Winsor seemed to know the attendees and made jokes to laughter from the audience.When Trump nominated Winsor to the US district court in 2018, <a href="https://civilrights.org/resource/oppose-confirmation-allen-winsor-u-s-district-court-northern-district-florida/">The Leadership Conference on Civil and Hum­­­­an Rights sent a letter opposing it</a>."Mr. Winsor is a young, conservative ideologue who has attempted to restrict voting rights, LGBT equality, reproductive freedom, environmental protection, criminal defendants' rights, and gun safety," the letter read. "He does not possess the neutrality and fair-mindedness necessary to serve in a lifetime position as a federal judge."When he was Florida's solicitor general from 2013-2016, he argued and monitored cases defending state laws that didn't allow gay marriage. In an <a href="https://www.jacksonville.com/story/news/2014/05/30/florida-attorney-general-pam-bondi-sees-harm-recognizing-gay-marriage/15794927007/">interview with the Associated Press in 2014</a>, Winsor defended then-Florida Attorney General Pam Bondi's argument that recognizing gay marriage in the state would be harmful."Florida's voters approved a constitutional amendment, which is being challenged, and it is the attorney general's duty to defend Florida law," Winsor told the AP, adding: "Florida is harmed whenever a federal court enjoins enforcement of its laws, including the laws at issue here."

The new judge in the Disney-DeSantis lawsuit is a Trump-appointee who gave the governor a win in his 'Don't Say Gay' law

<ul class="summary-list"><li>An Oklahoma district judge was accused in a petition of sending over 500 texts during a murder trial.</li><li>Traci Soderstrom said in one such text that she could look at a "pretty" police officer "all day." </li></ul>A district judge from Lincoln County, Oklahoma, was accused of sending over 500 inappropriate messages during her first murder trial.<a href="https://www.soderstromforjudge.com/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Traci Soderstrom</a>, 50, exchanged hundreds of messages with a bailiff in the courtroom, per a petition written by Oklahoma Chief Justice John Kane filed on Tuesday and seen by <a href="https://www.oklahoman.com/story/news/2023/10/10/lincoln-county-oklahoma-judge-traci-soderstrom-mocking-texts-during-trial-murder-toddler/71076992007/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">The Oklahoman,</a> a local newspaper.Soderstrom sent the messages in June when she was presiding over a trial for <a href="https://www.lcnok.com/lincoln-county-news-opinion/time-served-recommended-childs-death" target="_blank" rel="noopener">a man accused of beating his girlfriend's two-year-old son to death</a>, according to the petition."He's pretty. I could look at him all day,' the paper reported, reproducing Soderstrom's text message, referencing a police officer who had taken the stand. According to The Oklahoman, Soderstrom also mocked a district attorney and juror's appearance. "Why does he have baby hands?" Soderstrom said of District Attorney Adam Panter in a text. "They are so weird looking." In another text, Soderstrom told the bailiff that she thought one of the jurors was "definitely wearing a wig."Kane has recommended that Soderstrom be removed from her position, the <a href="https://apnews.com/article/judge-cellphone-texting-murder-trial-oklahoma-e3404d347edaa5d33b34100307afad39" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Associated Press</a> reported on Wednesday, citing the court petition."The pattern of conduct demonstrates Respondent's gross neglect of duty, gross partiality, and oppression. The conduct further demonstrates Respondent's lack of temperament to serve as a judge," Kane wrote, per the AP. Whether Soderstrom — who has been suspended with pay — will be removed from her post will be decided by Oklahoma's Court on the Judiciary, per the AP. Soderstrom's conduct first came into the spotlight in July when The Oklahoman <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2rfRY1bjxcA" target="_blank" rel="noopener">published security footage</a> of her <a href="https://www.insider.com/oklahoma-judge-traci-soderstrom-scrolling-facebook-gifs-during-murder-trial-2023-7" target="_blank" rel="noopener">scrolling through her phone throughout the murder trial</a>. Soderstrom was elected to her position in November for a term that ends in January 2027. While campaigning for the position in November 2022, Soderstrom told <a href="https://www.countywidenews.com/news/dist-23-judge-candidates" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Countywide &amp; Sun</a> that she had an extensive legal background, ranging from criminal law to juvenile law. "I also believe that it is important that every person that comes before the court is treated with respect, is treated fairly, is treated with dignity, and is treated with compassion," Soderstrom told Countywide &amp; Sun. "Obviously, the judge's job is to judge but not be judgmental and disrespectful and mean-spirited about it."Tracy Schumacher, Soderstrom's attorney, told The Oklahoman that Soderstrom "takes these allegations very seriously.""We are in the process of requesting the entire record from the Council on Judicial Complaints so that she can respond appropriately," Schumacher continued. Schumacher and representatives for the Oklahoma Council on Judicial Complaints did not immediately respond to a request for comment from Insider sent outside regular business hours.

An Oklahoma judge is being accused of sending over 500 inappropriate texts during a murder trial, including a wild one about a 'pretty' police officer

<ul class="summary-list"><li>A judge granted Trump's request for a special master to review the Mar-a-Lago materials.</li><li>The DOJ is appealing the decision, but each side submitted its picks on Friday.</li></ul>The Department of Justice and lawyers for former President Donald Trump <a href="https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/22278937-special-master?responsive=1&amp;title=1">each proposed two people</a> to be appointed special master to review the documents seized from Mar-a-Lago, according to a new court filing.The Justice Department proposed Barbara S. Jones, a retired judge of the US District Court for the Southern District of New York and a partner at Bracewell LLP, and Thomas B. Griffith, a retired Circuit Judge of the US Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit and a current lecturer at Harvard.Trump's proposed picks were Raymond J. Dearie, a former US attorney and former Chief Judge of the US District Court for the Eastern District of New York, and Paul Huck, Jr., founder of the Huck Law Firm and former deputy attorney general for the state of Florida.US District Judge Aileen Cannon on Monday <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/florida-federal-judge-allows-special-master-review-seized-trump-docs-2022-9">granted Trump's request to appoint a special master</a> to review the records seized in the court-authorized search of Mar-a-Lago on August 8. The Justice Department <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/doj-appeals-cannon-ruling-mar-ago-trump-special-master-2022-9">appealed</a> the decision on Thursday.<a href="https://bracewell.com/people/barbara-s-jones">Jones</a>, one of the DOJ's picks, was appointed to the bench by former President Bill Clinton in 1995 and retired from New York's Southern District after 17 years. Jones also served as the special master in cases involving two of Trump's former personal attorneys, Michael Cohen and Rudy Giuliani. The DOJ's other pick, <a href="https://www.huntonak.com/en/people/thomas-griffith.html">Griffith</a>, was appointed to the DC circuit by former President George W. Bush in 2005 and served until 2020.As for Trump's suggested special masters, <a href="https://www.nyed.uscourts.gov/content/judge-raymond-j-dearie">Dearie</a> was appointed to New York's Eastern District by former President Ronald Reagan in 1986, serving as chief judge from 2007 to 2011. Dearie was also one of the judges who signed off on the surveillance of Trump campaign aide Carter Page during the Russia investigation, according to <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2018/07/21/us/politics/carter-page-fisa.html">The New York Times</a>.Trump's other choice, Huck, served as general counsel to Florida Gov. Charlie Crist from 2007 to 2008 and is a former partner at the law firm Jones Day. Huck is also <a href="https://fedsoc.org/contributors/paul-huck">listed as a contributor to the Federalist Society</a>, a national organization of conservative lawyers.It's unclear if the DOJ's appeal will be successful, but some <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/legal-experts-raise-doubts-over-judges-mar-a-lago-ruling-2022-9?inline-endstory-related-recommendations=">legal experts questioned the decision</a> to grant Trump's request for a special master.A former DOJ official told <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/trump-special-master-thankless-job-in-america-2022-8">Insider's Warren Rojas</a> the special master's task of sorting through the documents would be "the worst thing in the world.""No one wants this assignment," Barbara McQuade, the former US attorney for the Eastern District of Michigan, said, adding: "It's time-consuming. It's thankless. You're damned if you do, damned if you don't."She said there's really only one upside: "I suppose you get paid."This is a breaking story. Please check back for updates.

Here are the 4 people who Trump and the DOJ proposed to be the special master to review the Mar-a-Lago documents

<ul class="summary-list"><li>The Senate confirmed Zahid Quraishi as the first Muslim-American federal judge in US history on Thursday.</li><li>The final vote in the Senate was bipartisan: 83-16.</li></ul>The US Senate voted 83-16 on Thursday to confirm Zahid Quraishi's nomination as the US District Judge for the District of New Jersey, making him the first Muslim-American in U.S. history to serve as a federal judge.The most recent of President Joe Biden's judicial nominees received considerable bipartisan support during the vote, with 34 Republicans voting to confirm Quraishi.Quraishi is currently serving as a magistrate judge for the District of New Jersey.On the Senate floor, New Jersey Sen. Robert Menendez said that Quraishi, "is a man of integrity, a consummate public servant, and a trailblazer for Asian Americans and Muslim Americans across this country who dream of one day presiding over a court of their own." Quraishi is the son of Pakistani immigrants and previously was a captain in the US Army Judge Advocate General's Corps, as well as a military prosecutor. He was deployed to Iraq in 2004, as well as in 2006.When Quraishi became a magistrate judge in New Jersey, he became the first Asian-American in the state's history to assume that position.

US Senate confirms Zahid Quraishi as the first Muslim-American federal judge in US history

<ul class="summary-list"><li>A federal judge ruled that a special master must review materials seized from Trump's Mar-a-Lago.</li><li>The Monday opinion granted Trump's request and ordered the Justice Department to stop using the documents in its investigation. </li></ul>A Harvard legal scholar ripped a federal judge's decision that granted former President Donald Trump's request to appoint a special master to review materials seized from Mar-a-Lago."Totally lousy opinion. Utterly lawless," Laurence Tribe, a constitutional law professor at Harvard Law School, wrote on <a href="https://twitter.com/tribelaw/status/1566950294730248193">Twitter</a>.US District Judge Aileen Cannon on Monday <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/florida-federal-judge-allows-special-master-review-seized-trump-docs-2022-9">granted Trump's request</a> that a special master — or independent party — go over materials that FBI agents recovered during their <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/live-fbi-search-warrant-donald-trump-mar-a-lago-2022-8">August 8 search</a> of the former president's Mar-a-Lago estate.In her ruling, Cannon — a Trump-appointed judge in the Southern District of Florida — also granted an injunction that stops the Department of Justice from using the documents in its investigation until the special master completes their review. In another <a href="https://twitter.com/tribelaw/status/1567100380940587009?s=20&amp;t=SfVNxu5gtx5IGV0m2YhvQw">tweet</a>, Tribe called the opinion "a poorly sewn-together fabric of factual misstatements and legal BS. It looks like her mind was made up the moment Team Trump filed in her court."<a href="https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.flsd.618763/gov.uscourts.flsd.618763.64.0_2.pdf"></a>Any US government appeal to her ruling would be heard at the Court of Appeals for the 11th Circuit, of which Trump appointed six of the 11 judges, Tribe noted. Cannon's ruling comes as the Department of Justice continues to investigate if Trump violated any laws by keeping classified government documents at his South Florida Mar-a-Lago resort. Last week, the DOJ <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/fbi-found-thousands-government-documents-trump-mar-a-lago-inventory-2022-9">revealed</a> in a court filing that it recovered more than 10,000 government documents at Mar-a-Lago — including over 100 classified records marked "CONFIDENTIAL," "SECRET," or "TOP SECRET."

Harvard legal scholar Laurence Tribe slams judge's decision to allow special master in Trump case as 'utterly lawless'

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