Obama has a higher rate of appointing women and minorities to the courts than any of his predecessor

[WI_DEM]

Yesterday, the Philadelphia Inquirer highlighted Republicans’ successful efforts to obstruct President Obama from appointing judges to the federal courts. Despite these efforts, the Inquirer notes, Obama has had a higher “rate of appointing women and people of color…than those of any of his precessors during their first year of their terms”:

So far, nearly half of Obama’s 73 appointments to the federal bench have been women, 25 percent have been African American, 11 percent Asian American, and 10 percent Hispanic. About 30 percent of Obama’s nominees were white males. By contrast, two-thirds of George W. Bush’s nominees were white males.

Obama’s rate of appointing women and people of color is higher than those of any of his predecessors during the first year of their terms.

Unfortunately, Republicans have shown a historically high level of obstruction in blocking Obama’s appointees. While Presidents Jimmy Carter and Ronald Reagan had 91 percent of their judicial appointees confirmed in their first year of office, Obama only had 36 percent of them approved by the U.S. Senate.

http://thinkprogress.org/2010/07/12/obama-higher-rate-women/

[liberal N proud]

1. And somewhere there is some white racist saying I told you they would take over

One those racist assholes would be my brother.

[Sebastian Doyle]

2. Ironically though, his SCOTUS appointees have done just the opposite.

Upon Kagan's confirmation, the court will be 2/3 Catholic and 1/3 Jewish, with the most recent of each being Obama nominees. Kagan is also from an Ivy League school, as ALL the current justices are, so no "minority" there either.

And then there is the fact that three of the justices (including Kagan) are now from New York City. One third of the highest court in the land should never be from one city. Even the largest city.

So congrats on the "diversity". But "diversity" is more than just gender and melanin content.