Pryor is rumored to have appeared in a nudie magazine in the ‘80s, a claim he has vehemently denied. Well it’s been little more than 24 hours and already new reports have sprung up about Donald Trump’s prospective Supreme Court nominee. According to Pryor then, LGBT people as a group were not protected by the Constitution.) What’s more, he argued that states should be able to prosecute gay people as criminals. Pryor Jr., one of Trump’s prospective Supreme Court nominees, issued a legal brief in 2003 that upheld a Texas law criminalizing consensual LGBT sex, which he compared to “polygamy, incest, pedophilia, prostitution, and adultery”. Note: This is an update of a post originally published on July 15, 2020.Over 50,000 shares, 450+ comments and one Ellen Page mention later, it’s clear you folks are really responding to our original Bill Pryor story. One active federal judge, Carmen Consuelo Cerezo of the District of Puerto Rico, was appointed by Carter. Obama appointed the largest share of currently active federal judges at 38%, while George W. (The number of active federal judges changes regularly because of retirements, resignations, new appointments and other reasons.) That includes three of the nine sitting Supreme Court justices, 30% of the nation’s active appeals court judges and 27% of active district court judges. 13, there were 816 active judges serving across the three main tiers of the federal court system: the Supreme Court, 13 regional appeals courts and 91 district courts governed by Article III of the U.S. More than a quarter of currently active federal judges are now Trump appointees. As is the case with women judges, Democratic presidents have generally been more likely than their GOP counterparts to appoint racial or ethnic minorities to the bench. Bush (18%), and well below the share appointed by the last three Democratic presidents – Obama (36%), Clinton (25%) and Jimmy Carter (22%). That’s slightly below the proportion of non-White judges appointed by the last Republican president, George W. About one-in-six of the judges appointed by Trump (16%) are Black, Hispanic, Asian or another race or ethnicity. Trump appointed a smaller share of non-White federal judges than other recent presidents. Trump’s appointment of Barrett to the Supreme Court in 2020 made her just the fifth woman ever to serve on the high court, after former justices Sandra Day O’Connor and Ruth Bader Ginsburg and current justices Sonia Sotomayor and Elena Kagan. Republican presidents have generally been less likely than Democrats to appoint women to the bench, but chief executives in both parties have increasingly done so. Bush (19%), but below the proportion appointed by Democrats Obama (42%) and Clinton (28%). That’s a bit higher than the share of women judges appointed by Republicans George W. Women account for around a quarter of Trump’s judicial appointees (24%). Trump was slightly more likely than other recent GOP presidents to appoint women to the federal judiciary, but less likely to do so than the last two Democratic presidents. But when it comes to the nation’s 13 federal appeals courts – which have the final word on most legal appeals around the country – Trump’s influence is clear. Not surprisingly, the overall number of judges appointed by Trump in his single term (226) is well below the totals of recent two-term presidents, including Obama (320), George W. Trump stands out for the large number of federal appeals court judges he appointed in only four years. Non-White judges include those who identify as Black, Hispanic, Asian, Native American or another race or ethnicity, as well as those who identify as multiracial or multiethnic. White judges in this analysis include only those who identify as single-race non-Hispanic, as reported by the Federal Judicial Center. Court of International Trade, as well as appointees to non-Article III territorial courts in Guam, the Northern Mariana Islands and the Virgin Islands. It excludes those appointed to certain specialized courts, such as the U.S. The Center’s analysis focuses only on judges serving in the three main tiers of the federal court system: the Supreme Court, 13 appeals courts and 91 district courts governed by Article III of the U.S. The analysis is based on data published by the Federal Judicial Center, the research and education agency of the federal judicial branch. As Donald Trump prepares to leave the White House, Pew Research Center conducted this analysis to find out how his record on judicial appointments compares with that of other recent presidents, going back to Jimmy Carter. Federal judicial appointments are an important part of a president’s legacy.
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