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Justice Scalia makes pitch for diversity on Supreme Court

By Douglas A. Berman

I am pleased to see this notable new AP piece reporting on interesting comments from Justice Antonin Scalia.  The piece is headlined "Scalia: Varied job experience needed on high court," and here are excerpts: Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia says he's concerned there aren't more people with varying professional backgrounds being nominated to the nation's highest court.... He said there were three justices with no prior judicial experience [when he first joined the Court] and today there are none.  Scalia said he's concerned about the practice because "every aspect of your career broadens your outlook" so "it's good for the court to have people of varying backgrounds." Regular readers know that I have long been an advocate of diversity on not just the Supreme Court, but also lower courts, especially as concerns diverse pre-judicial legal experience...continue to full post

Full post as published by Sentencing Law and Policy on January 04, 2010 (boomark / email).