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Posted: 2019-04-23T18:19:12Z | Updated: 2019-04-24T13:07:18Z

WASHINGTON President Donald Trump has done something remarkable to the nations federal courts: hes filled up their empty seats with clones of Vice President Mike Pence .

Whether its for district courts or higher-ranking appeals courts, Trumps confirmed lifetime judges are overwhelmingly white men with records of opposing abortion, LGBTQ rights and voting rights.

A whopping 90% of Trumps picks confirmed for appeals courts in his first two years in office were white, according to a Congressional Research Service analysis . 10% were Asian American. He didnt confirm any African American or Hispanic circuit judges.

In that same period, 92% of his confirmed district court judges were white. 4% were Asian American, 2% were African American and 2% were Hispanic.