Nominated by President Clinton ...
... not that there's anything wrong with that.
What gets me is that people like him don’t even get theat their decisions are racist. He assumes Black and Latino people just can’t pass a test, so whites have to bend down and help their burden.
There was a time when such big city PDs and FDs were racist and refused to hire minorities who had passed the tests with flying colors. Powerful unions kept their membership exclusive. Now, society has flipped that bigotry on its head.