Trump hasn’t appointed a single black or Latino judge

The following article by Ian Millhiser was posted on the ThinkProgress website March 12, 2018:

Remember when Trump said a Mexican American judge couldn’t be impartial?

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As you may recall, back when Donald Trump was just a candidate for president, he claimed that Judge Gonzalo Curiel, a U.S. citizen born in Indiana, was unable to be impartial towards Trump because of Curiel’s “Mexican heritage.” As president, Trump appears determined to make the judiciary white again.

Since taking office more than a year ago, Trump has appointed 29 individuals to lifetime appointments on the federal bench. According to the Federal Judicial Center, a government agency that tracks judicial data, exactly zero of Trump’s judges are black or Latinx Continue reading “Trump hasn’t appointed a single black or Latino judge”