CNN: Trump judicial picks lack decades-long diversity drive

[TomCADem]

Trump voters got what they wanted. It was not health care or benefits or even employment. It was a white male America.

http://www.cnn.com/2017/11/30/politics/trump-judges-courts-race/index.html

Overall, Trump judicial candidates so far are whiter and more consistently male than past presidents' choices.

Only 8% of Trump's nominees are not white to this point, the lowest share for a president in three decades. It's less than a quarter of Barack Obama's 36% nonwhite appointees, and less than the 22% of George W. Bush's, 24% of Bill Clinton's and 10% of George H.W. Bush's. Only 7% of Ronald Reagan's appointees were nonwhite. Trump has nominated fewer blacks and Hispanics than Reagan but he has named three Asian-Americans, which raises his percentage of racial minorities to slightly higher than Reagan's record.

Nineteen percent of Trump's nominees are women so far, less than half of Obama's 42% women appointees. It's also less than the 22% for George W. Bush and 28% for Clinton. George H.W. Bush's appointees were 19% women, and Reagan appointees 8%.

Trump's choices have drawn more "not qualified" ratings from the American Bar Association than appointees of past presidents. A full 8% of Trump's candidates have been rated not-qualified, compared with either 1% or 0% going back to the early 1960s.