I'm a con law groupie, which means I'm going to have to disagree. At least temporarily.
Women are slightly over half the population of the United States. They aren't yet slightly over half the population of the superstar constitutional lawyers in the United States. They're more of those than they used to be, and I hope it will soon get to the point where they are proportionately represented in that group; however, I'm not willing to confine the search to only that smallish subsection of those I consider competent for the job who happen to be women. There are too few really good con law judges in the first place; we need to be able to take the best of them, whomever they may be demographically.
I trust Obama as a con law scholar himself; if he weren't currently already employed, he'd be capable of being a damn fine Supreme Court justice himself. I'd like him to look first among the women in the field, but ultimately go with whatever individual's got the best skills for an insanely difficult job, regardless of that person's sexual equipment. And then I'd like to see some changes at the lower levels of judicial appointments and law school hiring, to put more women in a position to be top constitutional judges.
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Women are slightly over half the population of the United States. They aren't yet slightly over half the population of the superstar constitutional lawyers in the United States. They're more of those than they used to be, and I hope it will soon get to the point where they are proportionately represented in that group; however, I'm not willing to confine the search to only that smallish subsection of those I consider competent for the job who happen to be women. There are too few really good con law judges in the first place; we need to be able to take the best of them, whomever they may be demographically.
I trust Obama as a con law scholar himself; if he weren't currently already employed, he'd be capable of being a damn fine Supreme Court justice himself. I'd like him to look first among the women in the field, but ultimately go with whatever individual's got the best skills for an insanely difficult job, regardless of that person's sexual equipment. And then I'd like to see some changes at the lower levels of judicial appointments and law school hiring, to put more women in a position to be top constitutional judges.