Where The Supreme Court Could Use More Diversity
The Founders surely never imagined we'd reach this point.
Sen. Ben Sasse (R-Neb.)
There are a whole bunch of cultural and religious pluralism jokes I could make as a Protestant at a time when the Supreme Court has a vacancy and my people are unrepresented on the Court.
— Senator Ben Sasse (R-Neb.), humorously noting the current lack of Protestants on the U.S. Supreme Court while delivering the Barbara K. Olson Memorial Lecture at the Federalist Society’s 2016 National Lawyers Convention. You can access his eloquent address, focused on the need for lawyers to educate our fellow citizens about the Constitution and its virtues, here (the quoted portion appears around the 11:00 mark).
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David Lat is the founder and managing editor of Above the Law and the author of Supreme Ambitions: A Novel. He previously worked as a federal prosecutor in Newark, New Jersey; a litigation associate at Wachtell, Lipton, Rosen & Katz; and a law clerk to Judge Diarmuid F. O’Scannlain of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit. You can connect with David on Twitter (@DavidLat), LinkedIn, and Facebook, and you can reach him by email at [email protected].
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