LEGAL/NOMINATIONS/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “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…
Overall, Trump judicial candidates so far are whiter and more consistently male than past presidents’ choices…
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.”
-Joan Biskupic, Aaron Kessler, and Ryan Struyk, “Trump judicial picks lack decades-long diversity drive,” CNN Politics, CNN.com, Nov. 30, 2017 10:26am