flacaltenn
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Currently, white men are dramatically overrepresented on state supreme court benches. Though white men make up less than a third of the population, they hold a majority of seats on state supreme courts. Meanwhile, though people of color make up nearly 40 percent of the U.S. population, they hold only 15 percent of state supreme court seats.
Look at the MAP I posted and the processes quoted by the Wiki.. There is NO REASON to believe that a national standard is required in individual states... And the Brennan quotes you just posted dont' show the OVERREPRESENTATIONS of blacks in any state where they are at or EXCEED the 14% of the population..
And it's sneaky and DEVIOUS to craft a sentence about "white men" and leave out "white women" if this was to be racism and not politics...
It's also devious to bring up Asians and Hispanics without specifically INCLUDING their "people of color" numbers in the various states...
You're trying every excuse you can. I will not be looking at that wiki stuff whem my information is from The Brennan Center.
Twenty-four states currently have an all-white supreme court bench. This includes eight states in which people of color are at least a quarter of the state’s general population. And in states that have at least one justice of color, there are substantial gaps between the diversity in a state’s general population and its high court bench: the percentage of people of color on the bench is higher than their representation in the state’s population in only five states.
It appears you chose to miss this one. Racism is a political issue and racism is why the court are in this situation. So is sexism.
You never respond to what I actually write.. I've asked you TWICE how you resolve "unequal racial representation" in states that DON"T HAVE a lot of people of color..
And I've TOLD you it's not RACIST -- but POLITICAL in about 20 other states...
Constitution won't allow a "one size fits all" solution to State Sup Ct representation.. Did the Brennan Center MENTIONED THAT???
Because the states are entirely different, demographically and politically.. And it's largely up to them how they appoint and elect their State Justices....
If you DON'T actually discuss and converse, I don't care.. But it shows you're not PREPARED enough to do it..