Posted on 09/13/2011 11:26:11 AM PDT by triumphant values
WASHINGTON (AP) — President Barack Obama is moving at a historic pace to try to diversify the nation's federal judiciary: Nearly three of every four people he has gotten confirmed to the federal bench are women or minorities. He is the first president who hasn't selected a majority of white males for lifetime judgeships.
More than 70 percent of Obama's confirmed judicial nominees during his first two years were "non-traditional," or nominees who were not white males. That far exceeds the percentages in the two-term administrations of Bill Clinton (48.1 percent) and George W. Bush (32.9 percent), according to Sheldon Goldman, author of the authoritative book "Picking Federal Judges."
"It is an absolutely remarkable diversity achievement," said Goldman, a political science professor at the University of Massachusetts at Amherst, who is only counting judges once, even if they fit more than one category.
The White House recently has been touting its efforts to diversify the federal bench during Obama's tenure, now approaching three years in office.
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Hey White man, just because your ancestors carved the most powerful nation in the world out of a wilderness, and just because it was White men who invented, well pretty much everything in the modern world, that doesn't mean you should be allowed to run that country.
Time to step aside and hand it over, and if you won't well then they'll make you.
And ugly ones, at that..........
all socialist..........
Rather than the race or sex of his selections, my guess the POLITICAL IDEOLOGY of them reflects his anti-American, biased, racist, leftist viewpoint.
But then, don’t these have to clear Congress?
Where are the castrati in the GOP while this is going on?
Oppression will become an everyday affair. We are getting what the majority voted for.
Headline prediction after next Republican President nominates judges... White Men nominated to bench women and minorities hardes hit.
And in other breaking news, the sun rose in the east today.
The left openly promotes discrimination based on color, gender, and sexual orientation.
It is time to take them at their word.
They are un-American scumbags.
I wouldn’t mind if the pics had measurable IQs. However, since the Obamaloon picked them, we all know that there’s not a single one capable of signing their name without an auto-writer.
How many left handed people has he picked? How about people with moles on their cheeks? Descendants of the French King Charlemagne? Former barbers? Residents of Guam? I want to see some REAL diversity.
In this Obama-love piece they forgot to add the fact that he throws a baseball like a girl (no doubt because he is so sympathetic to women).
I’ll bet the same is true of all the new IRS hires.
In Russia there are some 90% female judges. And they have it since mid40s.
Affirmative action at its finest. Their only qualifications are that they are minorities and women, and most likely totally incompetent.
I’m not prejudice, I dislike both halves of Barack.
Of all the candidates available what percentage does this 70% nominate represent. No, Barack does not hate white males./s
Yes. But trying to put myths about tribal matriarchies into practice in the USA has been a bipartisan effort for decades, and we’re about to see the economic and other consequences of that.
Oh God, bring on these adorable beauties of brainless...I can’t wait...
We're already seeing it and have had a matriarchal experiment going on in our inner-cities for decades. Matriarchies of minorities are pretty nasty places, from what I see.
The anti-white president.
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