Judges appointed to the secret court in Washington that reviews national security foreign surveillance requests have been disproportionately white males, former prosecutors and appointed by Republican presidents, according to a new study.
Judges appointed to the federal bench by Republican presidents have been in the majority on 32 of the 34 different iterations of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court since it was created in 1978, according to the paper by Russell Wheeler, a visiting fellow at the Brookings Institution who studies the judiciary.
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