LEGO Supreme Court Justices Are A Real Thing

Custom LEGOs of the women who've served on the Supreme Court are awesome and we want them.

Christmas came early this year (or, I guess Hanukkah for half the figurines) because now there are custom LEGO figurines for all four of the women who have served on the Supreme Court! Just in time for Women’s History Month, Maia Weinstock, a Deputy Editor at MIT News, built a custom set of figurines and then posed the miniature justices in a variety of equally LEGO-tastic legal settings and posted the whole thing to a Flickr album.

Weinstock described the set on her website:

Celebrate women in law with the Legal Justice League! For 192 years, the constitutionality of United States law was decided by men alone. Then in 1981, President Ronald Reagan appointed Sandra Day O’Connor to become the first female justice of the U.S. Supreme Court. Three women have since joined O’Connor in representing the female half of the U.S. population on the Supreme Court bench: Ruth Bader Ginsburg(1993), Sonia Sotomayor (2009), and Elena Kagan (2010).

This set of custom-designed LEGO minifigures, U.S. Supreme Court replica, and SCOTUS library/study aims to celebrate the accomplishments of women in the legal realm, and to encourage girls and women to work toward high positions in the U.S. judicial system.

So it’s just the female justices, eh? That’s probably for the best, because LEGO arms can’t capture Justice Scalia at his most quintessential.

In addition to shots on the bench, Weinstock also put the justices to work behind the scenes:

It’s cute, but where are the little LEGO clerks running around waiting on them wearing their Yale sweatshirts?

Weinstock actually made the set for International Women’s Day (you know, that day with only 23 hours). MAKERS wrote Weinstock about the set and here’s what they found out:

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“The goal has been to inspire people to consider our generation’s thinkers and makers as heroes worthy of action figures,” Weinstock told MAKERS via email. “For International Women’s Day, I decided to focus on the first four women who’ve reached the highest level of our judiciary system. All of these women are trailblazers who should be celebrated — not only by adults but by kids just learning about civics and government.”

Sadly, these figurines are not for sale. Nor will LEGO be mass producing Weinstock’s design any time soon. Even though Weinstock submitted the designs to LEGO HQ, she explains that LEGO expressly forbids “political” designs.

Aw. Even Denmark isn’t buying the “nonpartisan Supreme Court” schtick that Chief Justice Roberts likes to tout.

Maia Weinstock [Flickr]
The Women of the Supreme Court Are Now Awesome LEGOs [MAKERS]
Someone made Lego versions of all the women on the Supreme Court [Business Insider]

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