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Related: About this forumPresident Obama Appoints Female Judges At Twice The Rate Of Bush
Obama Appoints Female Judges At Twice The Rate Of Bush
According to data from the Federal Judicial Center, President Obama appointed just one fewer women to the federal bench during his four years in office than President George W. Bush did in eight. Obama appointed 70 judges to lifetime positions on the federal bench, including Justices Sonia Sotomayor and Elena Kagan. Bush appointed just 71 after two full terms in the White House.
Overall, about 41 percent of Obamas confirmed nominees to the bench are women. Sadly, this places him well ahead of his predecessors. Indeed, until the Carter Administration, female federal judges were exceptionally rare. Presidents Kennedy, Nixon and Ford appointed just one woman each to the federal bench:
http://thinkprogress.org/justice/2013/01/11/1430941/in-less-than-one-term-obama-appointed-nearly-as-many-women-judges-as-bush-did-in-two/
p.s. I am not sure why the author used the word 'Sadly' in the article. I think Obama's appointments is something to cheer about!
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President Obama Appoints Female Judges At Twice The Rate Of Bush (Original Post)
Tx4obama
Jan 2013
OP
The article and graph up in the OP is about the ones that HAVE been 'confirmed'
Tx4obama
Jan 2013
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samsingh
(17,599 posts)1. repugs seem to hate women
MrSlayer
(22,143 posts)2. And none get confirmed.
These Republicans are unbelievable in their obstruction. What they do should be illegal.
Tx4obama
(36,974 posts)3. The article and graph up in the OP is about the ones that HAVE been 'confirmed'
Edited to add...
I posted a graph a while back that showed the statistics regarding gender and ethnicity for 'all appointments/nominations' (confirmed AND not confirmed) but I can't seem to find that post right now.
Cha
(297,317 posts)4. Maybe the writer at ThinkProgress was being facetious?
That's the only reason that makes sense.
Thanks for link, Tx.. not sad news at all.
gkhouston
(21,642 posts)5. Probably twice the IQ as well, considering Harriet Miers.
ellisonz
(27,711 posts)8. I had forgotten about Harriet Miers.
dsc
(52,162 posts)6. they mean sadly because
frankly prior to Carter the record stank up the joint, and when you consider the progress women have made overall the two Bushes did pretty badly as well. Carter's 15%, while it looks bad, should be taken in context, a person named a federal judge in 1980 or before would likely have graduated law school in at the latest the 1960's. Carter, given the percent of those grads who were women, did petty well. But it still is a sad overall record. There is no reason the Bushes couldn't have outperformed their Democratic predecessors and they sure didn't.
Tx4obama
(36,974 posts)7. Well, I think the paragraph was poorly written. So, I've rewritten it below :)
"Overall, about 41 percent of Obamas confirmed nominees to the bench are women. Sadly, this places him well ahead of his predecessors. Indeed, until the Carter Administration, female federal judges were exceptionally rare. Presidents Kennedy, Nixon and Ford appointed just one woman each to the federal bench.."
Overall, about 41 percent of Obamas confirmed nominees to the bench are women, this places him well ahead of his predecessors. Sadly, until the Carter Administration, female federal judges were exceptionally rare. Presidents Kennedy, Nixon and Ford appointed just one woman each to the federal bench...
I moved the word 'Sadly' to the next sentence