“The people who run the country should look like the country. That’s not what it’s about at all because no administration has ever looked less like America just by the numbers than the Biden administration.”
What he omitted is that even with those nominees confirmed, the judiciary remains disproportionately White and male relative to the U.S. population.
Sixty-nine percent of federal judges are White, a race that makes up 58% of the U.S. population. Meanwhile, 62% of the bench is male, though just under half the U.S. population is. And all judges of color – including Black, Latino, and Asian-American ones – amount to just 30% of the bench.
After Biden nominated Ketanji Brown Jackson to the Supreme Court last year, Carlson infamously demanded to see her LSAT scores. Jackson has since been confirmed and is the first Black woman to serve on the court.
As Mediaite pointed out then, “Notably, there appears to be no record of Carlson publicly demanding to see the LSAT scores of other recent Supreme Court nominees.”