Only one in 115 Supreme Court justices has ever been a woman of color. That number could soon double as Ketanji Brown Jackson has become the first Black woman ever nominated to the highest court in the country.
Supreme Court nominee Ketanji Brown Jackson meets with Sen. Mitt Romney on March 29, 2022. Jackson continues to meet with Senate members on Capitol Hill ahead of her confirmation vote.
I sent the 19th article to two of my best girlfriends, who actually worked with me in Kamala Harris’ office because it was so resonant immediately to be like, “it’s us.” I would love for you to talk with me about your friend network. Who are your people, what stories are lifting you and making this possible?
When we had that chat with her, Jen Weiss-Wolf and Michele Goodwin, it was a wonderful full circle moment for me. I felt very lifted in that group. It’s important to have these networks and friendships where you can go for a gut check. We’re going to keep doing this.Having this conversation today inspired me to scroll to the beginning of our Slack history because I was just curious, I wanted to see our origin story, and apparently, on Sep.
Ruth Bader Ginsburg said, ‘When will there be enough women? When there are nine women.’ That’s not to say you need to have a monolith on one side or monopoly on one side, but I think it is really critical for people to think about this in the whole continuum. ILook, 108 out of 115 justices have been white men, and those people were mostly responsible for the precedent that is critical to our whole profession.
There’s this concept of what does fairness look like, what does objectivity to the extent it exists or neutrality look like. I think these are things that become extra clear when you turn toand how judges are willing to think about precedents and the role of a judge.To your point about neutrality, the lack of diversity on the bench has given us an excuse to not acknowledge the elephants in the room, about the fact that most of these people look the same.
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