{"id":25053,"date":"2023-11-16T04:57:04","date_gmt":"2023-11-16T04:57:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.pakistaninewspaperlist.com\/adeel-mangi-biden-nominates-pakistani-american-to-appeals-courts\/"},"modified":"2023-11-16T04:57:04","modified_gmt":"2023-11-16T04:57:04","slug":"adeel-mangi-biden-nominates-pakistani-american-to-appeals-courts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pakistaninewspaperlist.com\/news\/adeel-mangi-biden-nominates-pakistani-american-to-appeals-courts\/","title":{"rendered":"Adeel Mangi: Biden nominates Pakistani-American to appeals courts"},"content":{"rendered":"
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President Joe Biden on Wednesday nominated a Pakistani-American attorney to become a federal appeals court judge as part of a continued effort by the White House to diversify the federal judiciary.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Biden nominated Nicole Berner, the general counsel of Service Employees International Union, to the Richmond, Virginia-based 4th US Circuit Court of Appeals and New Jersey attorney Adeel Mangi to join the Philadelphia-based 3rd US Circuit Court of Appeals.<\/p>\n

Pakistan-born Adeel Mangi began his legal career in 2000 at Patterson Belknap and in 2010 became a partner. His cases include a successful legal challenge on behalf of Muslim communities in New Jersey seeking to open mosques in Bernards Township and Bayonne.<\/p>\n

The only two other Muslim Americans to serve as Biden appointed life-tenured federal judges to trial courts, and a fourth\u2019s district court nomination is pending.<\/p>\n

Read more: US first female Muslim judge found dead in Hudson River<\/a><\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

Biden also on Wednesday nominated three new district court judges in Oregon and Indiana, a state with two Republican senators, whose support will be needed for the two nominees to win Senate confirmation under the Senate\u2019s \u201cblue slip\u201d custom.<\/p>\n

The Democratic president has so far won Senate confirmation for 154 lifetime federal judicial nominees, the vast majority of whom\u00a0have been women or people of color.<\/p>\n

His decision to nominate Berner heeds calls from progressive advocates for the White House to appoint more pro-union labor lawyers to the bench at a time of rising unionization efforts nationwide and strikes in major industries.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n