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Posted: 2019-08-05T21:21:07Z | Updated: 2019-08-05T21:21:07Z

President Donald Trumps biggest legacy may be remaking the federal judiciary largely in his own image: white and male .

Since taking office nearly two and a half years ago, Trump has won confirmation of two Supreme Court justices , 43 appeals court judges and 99 district court judges an extraordinary feat in which he has vastly outpaced his most recent predecessors.

The judges Trump has installed to lifetime positions on the federal bench are younger and more conservative than those appointed by past GOP administrations, and many could serve for decades to come.

But they are also generally a less diverse bunch. Eighty-six percent of Trumps picks confirmed for appeals courts during his first two and a half years in office were white. Although he did appoint some Asian American judges to appellate courts, he included no African American or Hispanic judges.

By comparison, 65% of President Barack Obamas confirmed appeals court judges were white.