JUSTICE GINSBURG PROPOSES ALL-FEMALE BENCH
| Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg on Tuesday floated the idea of an all-female Supreme Court bench. Speaking at the 10th Circuit Bench & Bar Conference in Colorado, the second-ever female Justice explained that no one “ever raised a question” when there were nine men on the Supreme Court, but “when I’m sometimes asked when will there be enough [women on the bench] and I say when there are nine, people are shocked.” Ginsburg also added that “It was the wrong perception for people to see just a little woman and eight larger men,” when she was briefly the only woman on the bench, after Justice Sandra Day O’Connor retired and before Justices Sonia Sotomayor and Elena Kagan were appointed. Ginsburg called that period of her time on the bench “lonely.” The Northern District of California recently became the first major federal court to have an all-female bench.
http://thinkprogress.org/justice/2012/11/28/1245401/justice-ginsburg-proposes-all-female-bench/
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