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In 2020, a New Jersey man began grooming a 13-year-old girl into an online sexual relationship. He was arrested in 2024 and finally brought into court this year.
And that’s when he got a lucky break.
The child sex predator’s break came from ‘Judge’ Zahid Nisar Quraishi, a Pakistani Muslim, the first Muslim lifetime appointee, who decided to turn what should have been an open-and-shut child pornography case into a power struggle to seize control of the Justice Department from President Trump by exploiting a ruling in the unrelated case of a $100 million Muslim fraudster.
Now a Muslim judge and a Muslim fraudster are trying to hijack the state’s federal prosecutors.
In a bizarre scene out of a movie courtroom drama, before the prosecution could even begin moving forward to the sentencing of the child predator, Judge Quraishi began ranting that Supervisory Assistant US Attorney Mark Coyne would not be allowed to speak, pressuring the prosecutor to seek an adjournment, and mocking the idea that the child predator had victims.
“Aren’t all the cases involving victims,” Judge Quraishi sneered.
The child predator’s case has “multiple victims who have rights under the Crime Victims’ Rights Act,” Daniel Rosenblum, the prosecutor, pointed out, warning that the Pakistani judge’s adjournment would violate their rights.
Then the Muslim Biden appointee wildly demanded information about the “leadership structure” of the New Jersey U.S. Attorney’s office, completely unrelated to the case in front of him, threatening Coyne and then ordering that the supervisory assistant US Attorney be removed for pointing out the law to the ranting Pakistani judge, and after getting rid of the one man in the courtroom who could have answered his questions about the office, insisted that the case prosecutor prove a negative, that a former appointee, Alina Habba, is not running the office, and finally demanded that the current leaders testify under oath about the office’s operations.
None of this had anything to do with the case but a naked power grab by an unqualified judge.
Quraishi’s judicial Jihad rested on the thin pretext of a ruling by District Judge Matthew Brann, which the judge himself had stayed in the case of Raheel Naviwala, a Muslim fraudster in a $100 million Medicare and insurance fraud scheme in Florida. Naviwala’s lawyers had sued over the legality of President Trump’s appointment of U.S. attorneys in New Jersey.
(It’s unknown if Quraishi and Naviwala were ever acquainted, but the latter’s Islamic allegiance appeared to have become an issue in the court case as jury instructions for the Naviwala case asked potential jurors, “do you have any negative feelings about people who are Muslim that could affect your judgment in this case?”)
After Habba stepped down, two judges tried to seize power and appoint their own federal prosecutors, only for those prosecutors to be fired by the Justice Department, which set up a temporary leadership structure until a prosecutor can be put forward and confirmed.
This is legitimate because Assistant U.S. Attorneys or AUSAs are still deriving their authority from the Justice Department and Attorney General Pam Bondi. Brann’s argument that an office not run by a U.S Attorney confirmed by the Senate was somehow illegitimate when prosecuting cases ignored previous precedents in favor of his feeling that the three person leadership in the New Jersey office was an “unprecedented and byzantine leadership structure.”
In his ruling, he chose to “ignore any argument the Government offers based on a practical need to operate the USAO-NJ”, and claimed that the Trump Administration has made clear that it cares far more about who is running the USAO-NJ than whether it is running at all…I take the same approach.” And the approach was that a Trump appointee couldn’t be allowed to run it.
However, Brann concluded with, “I believe that a stay of this decision is appropriate” but warned “If the Government chooses to leave the triumvirate in place, it does so at its own risk.”
Quraishi jumped on that last line about risk even though Brann was referring back to his own warning that the Trump administration was allowing “the fate of thousands of criminal prosecutions in this District potentially rest on the legitimacy of an unprecedented and byzantine leadership structure” while ignoring that the decision had been stayed.
Instead, the Pakistan judge claimed that the stay was irrelevant and that “at its own risk” allowed him to sideline a case and demand in-person testimony from senior federal prosecutors about how their office is run based on a case that is not on his docket and that he has no authority to supervise or implement. Quraishi’s move, if it stands, is a massive power grab that would effectively allow any federal judge to interrogate the entire makeup of the Justice Department.
This is a breathtaking assertion of judicial authority even by the standards of judicial coups.
Zahid Quraishi is contending that he has the authority to deem the US Attorney’s office in New Jersey illegitimate, dispose of its cases, browbeat random federal prosecutors to demand that they restructure their office along the Biden appointee’s preferred lines, that he can mandate that its top officials testify under oath, sequestered, about their office (with penalties) and until then he will not allow a sentencing hearing for a child sex predator.
The Pakistani Muslim judge would further like testimony from Alina Habba. This is significant because the status of Raheel Naviwala’s case, the $100 million Muslim insurance fraudster, depends in part on Habba. Judge Brann’s ruling failed to dismiss Naviwala’s case, but Quraishi may be hoping to do more for him by bringing in Alina Habba to testify about her actions.
Whether or not Zahid Nisar Quraishi is actively trying to help Raheel Naviwala, he’s taking part in an unconstitutional judicial coup to seize power over an arm of the Department of Justice.
The law is quite clear. Despite what Brann and Quraishi contend, U.S. attorneys are appointed by the president, they can be appointed on an interim basis for a temporary period, and district judges, especially, have no oversight over these appointments. The Senate did not challenge President Trump’s interim appointments, a Muslim fraudster who had no standing to challenge them did, and now a Muslim judge in an unrelated case is launching an illegal probe into the U.S. Attorney’s office that could benefit him while delaying the sentencing of a child sex predator.
Congress however has the ability to put an end to Quraishi’s judicial Jihad by holding him accountable. Quraishi wants to compel federal prosecutors to testify under oath about their office. Congress should bring Quraishi in to testify under oath about his actions and agendas.
Quraishi’s refusal to move to a prompt sentencing hearing for a child sex offender violates his judicial responsibilities. According to the Constitution, federal judges “shall hold their Offices during good Behavior…” That means fulfilling their judicial responsibilities. Quraishi’s failure to do so while staging a judicial coup allows him to be impeached and removed from the bench.
Examples like these are why the David Horowitz Freedom Center launched the Judicial Accountability Project to hold radical judges like ‘Judge’ Zahid Nisar Quraishi as they pervert justice and wage war on the Constitution. The American people deserve a justice system that serves them. Not an unconstitutional judicial coup that serves the enemies of the United States.
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(Judge Zahid Nisar Quraishi is the second of the Judicial Accountability Project’s ‘Bad Judges’. More are coming soon. If you know of a federal ‘bad judge’ in need of profiling, drop us a line.)
Bad Judge #1: Remove Epstein Judge Who Approved Mar-a-Lago Raid
Bad Judge #2: First Muslim Judge Uses $100M Muslim Fraud to Stage DOJ Coup.
Bad Judge #3: Should This Senile Trump-Hating Judge Hold Office?
