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Federal bench short on diversity

ALABAMA:Federal bench short on diversityOther actions that presidents take may get more attention in the shortterm, but few have more long-term implications than appointments to thefederal courts. These are lifetime appointments, and as such can continueto exercise influence decades after a president has left office.Although appointments to the U.S. Supreme Court prompt lots of discussion,and rightly so, presidents also leave a huge impression on the judiciarywith their appointments to the federal district and circuit courts. Apresident will make scores of these appointments. President Bush, forexample, has named 322 district and circuit judges. President Clintonnamed 371.In Alabama, there is a lamentable lack of racial diversity in theappointments made to the federal district bench in the pastquarter-century...continue to full post

Full post as published by Lethal Injection on December 01, 2008 (boomark / email).