Tagged: Federalist Society
“Our nation’s army of judicial clerks is overwhelmingly white, not unlike the judiciary it serves. Only 14 percent of federal clerks in 2009 were minorities, according to a study that year by the National Association for Law Placement (NALP) — the last time any comprehensive survey of clerk diversity was done. Minorities fared slightly better in less prestigious state court clerkships, where they filled 18 percent of the positions.”
This was the first paragraph from Karen Sloane article “Judges Doing Something About Dearth of Diverse Clerks,” published May 12, 2014 in The National Law Journal.
Very little diversity amongst our federal judges and the administration results in very little diversity amongst those who are chosen as clerks. It’s 2014! This should be a NO BRAINER!!!! If many of these federal clerks are actually the ones writing these opinions, what impact, if any, has that played on our majority white, ideologically conservative court’s narrowed interpretation of our nation’s human rights and antidiscrimination statutes over the last 34 years [since Reagan administration]?
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