Ted Lieu actually said...

This is about having the deliberate and conscious commitment to improving the diversity on the bench.

The fact that it is 73 percent White and male means decisions were being made on the race of applicant, and that is simply a fact.

When you have a Federal judiciary that is 73 percent White and male, far above that actual population of White males, and then you say the r...

To somehow suggest that the only reason it is White and male is because those people are the most exceptionally qualified is a lie.