Trump Nominates Highest Percentage Of White Judges Since Reagan

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USA Today reported yesterday that 92 percent of the people President Trump has nominated to federal judgeships so far in his term are white, the least diverse set of judicial nominees since Ronald Reagan, even though “minority enrollment in law schools has nearly tripled” since Ronald Reagan’s presidency. Trump’s 87 federal judicial nominees include just one African American, one Latino and five Asian Americans, a stark contrast to President Obama’s efforts to increase diversity on the federal bench.

Carrie Severino, the chief counsel of the Judicial Crisis Network, which was the chief group working to block President Obama’s judicial nominees and to promote Trump’s, told USA Today that Trump’s nominees are so overwhelmingly white because he “isn’t looking for people to fit a quota”:

Carrie Severino, chief counsel at the conservative Judicial Crisis Network, which has promoted and applauded Trump’s nominees, says quality is more important than quotas.

“President Trump isn’t looking for people to fit a quota. He’s looking for people with a principled judicial philosophy,” she says. “The fundamental question is making sure we have judges who are going to be faithful to the Constitution.”

The implication that trying to increase diversity on the federal bench would somehow affect the quality of nominees is something that we saw from a few of Severino’s allies in the conservative legal movement during Obama’s presidency. After Obama nominated an openly gay man for a judgeship in New York, Concerned Women for America accused Democrats of imposing “homosexual quotas” on the judiciary. Curt Levey of the Committee for Justice told the Washington Post in 2013 that the Obama administration might have been “lowering their standards” to pick more non-white nominees.
http://www.rightwingwatch.org/post/conservative-legal-activist-says-trumps-judicial-nominees-are-92-white-because-he-isnt-meeting-a-quota/

Move along, nothing to see here!

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1. This is what scares me the most about the Shithole Administration.

Most of the damage they have inflicted can be undone. These judgeships are lifetime appointments.

And what a horseshit statement about "judges who are going to be faithful to the Constitution". They are intentionally loading up the court with unqualified people who have NO INTENTION of upholding the Constitution.

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2. This and the Supreme Court were my biggest fears

Although, as bad as I though this would’ve, it’s much much worse.