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80% of active judges are white seems normal. Judges are not that young, I assume around 40 years of age. So it would stand to reason that the older demographic in a position that requires education and experience is going to reflect the demographics from 40 years or more ago. Is not like there was a huge influx of judges crossing the southern border.
Looking at the racial demographic of US in 1990, whites were 80% of the population. So that percentage of white judges shows that there is no bias towards white people.
I assume that, just like in everything else, they're counting most Latinos as white. And all jews of course. Law school still doesn't attract as many black students. And nursing doesn't attract as many white men. Even if the races were entirely equal, if only half the per capita population of blacks vs other races wanted to be a lawyer, you'd have to lower standards in order to have 12% or whatever blacks. Which is of course what they do.