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Saturday, September 02, 2006
Courts - More on: "Women Suddenly Scarce Among Justices’ Clerks"
Updating the ILB entry from August 30th, which quoted a Linda Greenhouse NY Times story on the fact that less than 20% of this year's group of U.S. Supreme Clerk's clerks are women, here are several additional items.
Dahlia Lithwick of Slate has an article titled: "Clerked Around: Is there a major girl crisis in Supreme Court hiring?" Here is her final paragraph:
So, the real front-page story, to my mind, isn't whether there is a female clerkship crisis, or even why women won't or don't clerk. This is a process that is completely driven by the whims of the justices. Which suggests that the issue, again, is about the unbelievable lack of diversity in the high court's chambers, and why some of the most important jurists in America—from some "feeder judges" to Justices Kennedy and Scalia—just don't care.The ILB recommends this entry from Prof. Douglas Berman's Sentencing Law Blog, where he writes:
My PrawfsBlawg post, which focused on the "feeder judge" dynamic, suggested that "the perspectives and insights of the clerks as a group would be greatly enhanced if more came from state court clerkships or district court clerkships or even positions in other government branches.Edward Lazarus has an article on the subject in this week's Writ, from Findlaw.com.
Posted by Marcia Oddi on September 2, 2006 11:14 AM
Posted to Courts in general