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August 30, 2006
How might a gendered clerk reality impact the SCOTUS cert pool?
As detailed in posts linked below, I have long speculated that the operation of the SCOTUS cert pool, and thus the insights and interests of the Justices' clerks, has a profound impact on the Supreme Court's docket. With these concerns in mind, I read with great interest this New York Times article by Linda Greenhouse, which examines the fact that "women account for only 7 of the 37 law clerkships for the new term, the first time the number has been in the single digits since 1994."
Related posts about the cert pool and the SCOTUS docket:
- Roberts, the cert pool, and sentencing jurisprudence
- Problems with the SCOTUS docket
- More on Alito and the criminal docket
- Time to take some more Blakely and Booker cases....
- A criminal start to OT '06 for SCOTUS
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Linda Greenhouse has this article in today's New York Times finding that women are "suddenly scarce among Justices' clerks." In the article, she cites this July post at the Volokh Conspiracy which ignited a plethora of comments and several other... [Read More]
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» Round-Up: More on the Gender of SCOTUS Clerks from SCOTUSblog
Linda Greenhouse has this article in today's New York Times finding that women are "suddenly scarce among Justices' clerks." In the article, she cites this July post at the Volokh Conspiracy which ignited a plethora of comments and several other... [Read More]
Tracked on Aug 30, 2006 4:54:59 PM
