The federal courts made no progress last year in their push to bring more diversity to the ranks of judicial law clerks, according to the latest statistics released Wednesday by the Administrative Office of the U.S. Courts.

The percentage of clerks who identified as African-American and Hispanic basically remained steady for the fiscal year that ended in June, despite judges saying there is room for improvement and a pilot internship program started last summer to bring minority law students into federal judges’ chambers.

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