Trump judicial picks lack decades-long diversity drive
As President Donald Trump moves aggressively to advance a legal agenda with racial dimensions, he is simultaneously setting records for the percentage of white people nominated for lifetime appointments to the federal courts.
Of the nearly 60 individuals Trump has nominated to preside over the US justice system, only one is black.
Only one is Hispanic.
Trump's record, according to a CNN comparative analysis of data from the Federal Judicial Center and the US Senate, reflects a lack of racial and ethnic diversity unseen for decades.
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%.
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http://www.cnn.com/2017/11/30/politics/trump-judges-courts-race/index.html
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