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NYC-Dominanz im Supreme Court?

Die New York Times weist auf einen interessanten Aspekt bei der SCOTUS-Nominierung von Elena Kagan hin:

If the nomination of Elena Kagan to the Supreme Court is confirmed, she would join three others in a distinct bloc. For the first time in the court's history, said William Treanor, the dean of Fordham Law School, it would have four justices who grew up in New York City.

The four are a portrait of the city, each carrying distinct New York traits to Washington. "Kagan is so Manhattan, Scalia is so Queens, Ginsburg is so Brooklyn and Sotomayor is so Bronx," said Joan Biskupic, the author of a biography of Justice Antonin Scalia. "They adopted in their identities the whole New York sensibility."

Only Staten Island - "the forgotten borough," as a woman who answered the telephone in the borough president's office described it on Tuesday - would be without a justice to call its own if the Senate confirms Ms. Kagan.

Full post as published by jurabilis - German bLAWg from Berlin. on May 12, 2010 (boomark / email).