A quick thought on the Supreme Court situation

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Women are slightly over half the population.  So women should be slightly over half the Supreme Court.  There are nine Supreme Court judges, so that means five of them should be women.

The most we've ever had is two.  George W. Bush left us with only one.  Of course the next Supreme Court judge should be a woman.  The next four Supreme Court judges should be women.  Unless Ruth Bader Ginsberg retires in that time, in which case the next five Supreme Court judges should be women.

Duh.

And I'm being moderate and patient, here.  If I was really going for true equality and fairness, the Supreme Court should have only women on it for the next one hundred and ninety years, at which point a single male would be allowed to serve and twelve years later, a second male would be allowed to serve, with the court only opening up to allow a total of four males sixteen years after that.

Comments

Re: true equality - Note that I am not asking for it.

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I get nervous when we talk about oppressing the descendents of oppressors to obtain justice

This is rather a long comment to address something I specifically said I wasn't proposing. It's good to see, however, that you agree with me that women have been historically oppressed, and that part of relieving that oppression, which is probably going to take a long time, is having women present on the Supreme Court in a proportion similar to their number in the population.

You have nothing to worry about, and you're on my side in this. Great!