Senate Democrats led the confirmation on Thursday of the first Muslim American judge to sit on a federal district court.

Judge Zahid Quraishi, whom President Joe Biden nominated in March for the U.S. District Court for the District of New Jersey, was confirmed in an 81-16 vote. Quraishi is the third of Biden’s nominees to be confirmed after the Senate began voting on the president’s candidates this week.

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