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Insider myopia and the diverse benefits of a short bench

By Douglas A. Berman

Jeffrey Rosen has this remarkable ? and depressingly telling ? article online at The New Republic, titled "Short Bench: Why the Dems lack Supreme Court nominees."  Here is a taste:As Democrats dream about the possibility of retaking the White House in 2008, they are also fantasizing about their first Supreme Court appointments since 1994. But the bench of potential candidates is surprisingly thin.... [M]ost of the sitting Democratic appellate judges are too old to be considered plausible Supreme Court candidates.... Democrats have a strong incentive to pick younger justices this time around.... The next Democratic president will also feel strong pressure to appoint a woman or a Latino justice -- or both. Here, the pool of potential candidates is also shallow...continue to full post

Full post as published by Sentencing Law and Policy on February 26, 2008 (boomark / email).