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> While the percentage of female lawyers has increased slowly over the past decade (31% in 2010 vs. 37% in 2020), recent gains among people of color are minimal
by screye 5y ago
> While the percentage of female lawyers has increased slowly over the past decade (31% in 2010 vs. 37% in 2020), recent gains among people of color are minimal. Just 5% of all lawyers are Black, the same percentage as 10 years ago
Statistically closer to 2%.
I am all for having a female black supreme court justice, if they're the top candidate. But, it has to begin with better representation at the grassroots level first.
It is admittedly higher at Ivy law league schools it is 0.73*11 = 8%, but these are representative of the sub-25 yr old population which isn't being considered for the role.
With 1/9 being 11%, having 1 black person on the supreme court would be the closest to accurate representation. From the perspective of equity, black people are not underrepresented in the supreme court.
- polski-g 5y agoSupreme court justices should be determined by ability, not racial/gender quotas. And there is already a black SC justice.
- screye 5y ago> determined by ability, not racial/gender quotas Yeah, I have no dog in this fight. I was merely pointing out, that the case for diversity as championed by Biden (or his cabinet/loudest supporters) contradicts his choice to push for a candidate that would lead to over-representation of a certain community in the Supreme Court.