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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsTrump has appointed 41 Lifetime judges and not one of them are Black.
Think about that America.
we have a White Supremacist 'president'
this was just reported on msnbc
https://www.theroot.com/the-true-danger-of-trump-how-white-republican-judges-1826611714
malaise
(269,352 posts)He's a white supremacist
rogue emissary
(3,148 posts)He'll also probably have the least about of LGBT, women, and Latinos nominees since Nixon.
malaise
(269,352 posts)qualified to judge him. I don't plan to forget.
The racist scumbag questioned the US president's citizenship because he's an African-American.
Sadly Obama opted for civility. It should have been me.
SWBTATTReg
(22,226 posts)spanone
(135,951 posts)Of the 41 judges already confirmed under the Trump administration, 36 are white, according to the Federal Judicial Centers statistics. The group also includes one Hispanic judge, four Asian justices and a grand total of zero African Americans. In fact, of the 87 federal judges even nominated by Donald Trump, only one is black.
https://www.theroot.com/the-true-danger-of-trump-how-white-republican-judges-1826611714
SWBTATTReg
(22,226 posts)confirming them (or at least someone (a democrat/indep.) did say something but they still went ahead, repugs ignored them, and confirmed).
niyad
(113,990 posts)Cha
(298,119 posts)scary shit.
bdamomma
(63,977 posts)and Mr Bannon's dream to destroy the US is working.
winstars
(4,220 posts)Hoyt
(54,770 posts)Igel
(35,393 posts)US population overall:
https://www.census.gov/quickfacts/fact/table/US/PST045217
Lawyer population: https://www.americanbar.org/content/dam/aba/administrative/market_research/National_Lawyer_Population_Demographics_2008-2018.authcheckdam.pdf
Judge population:
https://www.statista.com/statistics/408483/percentage-of-us-district-court-judges-by-race/
oberliner
(58,724 posts)He is the person who wrote this piece.
Maybe he shouldn't have advocated so strongly against voting for Hillary Clinton.
moondust
(20,029 posts)Black judges?