Halperin: All Agree Great for SCOTUS to 'Look More Like America'

NewsBusters ^ | Mark Finkelstein

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There isn’t a protestant on the court. Its all Catholic and jewish, and 99% east coast.

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The last part of that is a BIG problem. We have absolutely no regional representation on the Court. No one from the South, no one from the Midwest, no one from the Southwest, etc. It’s pretty absurd if you think about it. And that’s matched with not having any diversity at all in terms of the Justices’ legal background.

I would guess there are tons of excellent attorneys/judges that have practiced in states like Nevada, or Iowa, or New Mexico, and have their law degrees from places like the University of Montana, or University of Colorado, University of Minnesota, etc. But those folks will never ever get considered because they come from the “wrong” parts of the country or the “wrong” law school.

Instead we have judicial pinheads like Justice Kagan, who never practiced law (other than a year as a junior associate) and had in fact never even been in a courtroom before Obama installed her as Solicitor General in order so he could set her up for the Supreme Court. Her background was entirely in the little ivory towers of University of Chicago and Harvard Law Schools, and in being in political positions for the Clinton White House. But she has the right liberal career in academia, and so this woman, one of the most unqualified nominees ever, is happily sitting on the highest court in the land.