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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsWhat do you call a meeting of Scalia, Thomas, Kennedy, Alito, and Roberts?
A Conclave.
valerief
(53,235 posts)MohRokTah
(15,429 posts)Bluzmann57
(12,336 posts)The dirty, unwashed toilet? The one at the gas station that the absentee owner long ago gave up on. Sounds about right to me.
Crowquette
(88 posts)madinmaryland
(64,920 posts)boston bean
(36,186 posts)S=Scalia
T=Thomas
A=Alito
R=Roberts
K=Kennedy
Harsh, Grim, Desolate.
Freddie
(9,232 posts)A Supremely Awful group.
CBGLuthier
(12,723 posts)Pointing out this distortion on the supreme court may not be polite but it sure as fuck is relevant.
MohRokTah
(15,429 posts)Sonia Sotomayor.
That should say it all.
BootinUp
(46,928 posts)Chan790
(20,176 posts)Last edited Mon Jun 30, 2014, 10:21 PM - Edit history (2)
I feel that the court needs to better reflect the heterogeneity of the USA.
6 Roman Catholics, 3 Jews, 0 Protestants, 0 Buddhists, 0 Hindus, 0 Atheists, 0 Agnostics, 0 Shintoists, 0 Daoists (a.k.a. Taoists), 0 Mormons, 0 Rastafari, 0 Quakers, 0 Unitarians, ...
6 Males, 3 Females, 0 Transgendered, 0 Nongendered, ...
9 Heterosexuals, 0 Homosexuals, 0 Bisexuals, 0 Asexuals, 0 Pansexuals, 0 ...any other orientation. (I'm a spectrum of sexual-orientations thinker.)
7 Caucasians, 1 Latina, 1 African-American, 0 Asians, 0 Native Americans, ...
We don't do a real good job of having a Supreme Court that reflects the make-up of the American public. Not all of those inequalities can be fixed at once or in the short term.
I think there needs to be pressure however that the next Justice of the Supreme Court be LGBTQ or Asian, or not a Catholic or a Jew, or diverse from the current make-up. The Supreme Court of the US cannot continue to look like a star-chamber of the dominant culture over other diverse US cultures if they wish to remain relevant and be taken seriously.
theHandpuppet
(19,964 posts)There are six Catholic judges: Alito, Scalia, Kennedy, Thomas, Roberts & Sotomayor; three Jewish, Kagan, Ginsberg and Breyer, who voted against Hobby Lobby, along with Sotomayor. The five who voted for Hobby Lobby were all male and all Catholic.
Chan790
(20,176 posts)I was tabulating all that in my head, it happens sometimes.
theHandpuppet
(19,964 posts)Between you and me, I doubt many people were even aware of the demographics of the court. I tried bringing this up a few months ago and got flamed.
Spider Jerusalem
(21,786 posts)Sotomayor is not "Caucasian"; Puerto Ricans are an ethnic mix of indigenous people, Africans and Europeans. Which is what "Latino" denotes, in US customary usage. Spaniards are not Latinos; "Hispanic" is a linguistic category and not an ethnic one.
Art_from_Ark
(27,247 posts)"53 Million
The Hispanic population of the United States as of July 1, 2012, making people of Hispanic origin the nation's largest ethnic or racial minority. Hispanics constituted 17 percent of the nation's total population.
http://www.census.gov/newsroom/releases/archives/facts_for_features_special_editions/cb13-ff19.html?utm_source=REVISED+Hispanic+Heritage+Month+2013+%231&utm_campaign=July+eblasts&utm_medium=email
Spider Jerusalem
(21,786 posts)"Hispanic" means "Spanish-speaking people of Latin American origin", in US parlance. Those Spanish-speaking people may be of indigenous, African, or European ancestry, or all three. Ergo, "Hispanic" is not a racial or ethnic group. QED.
Art_from_Ark
(27,247 posts)That is, "There are two minimum categories for data on ethnicity: "Hispanic or Latino" and "Not Hispanic or Latino."
http://www.census.gov/population/hispanic/about/faq.html
Spider Jerusalem
(21,786 posts)An Australian aborigine, an African-American, and an Irishman may all speak English; that doesn't make them members of the same ethnic group.
Response to Spider Jerusalem (Reply #28)
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BootinUp
(46,928 posts)wandy
(3,539 posts)joeybee12
(56,177 posts)Funny, but still sad.
eppur_se_muova
(36,227 posts)Initech
(99,915 posts)Ghost in the Machine
(14,912 posts)Tom Ripley
(4,945 posts)Arugula Latte
(50,566 posts)JaneyVee
(19,877 posts)applegrove
(118,022 posts)to take place so they can benefit.
boston bean
(36,186 posts)Misogynist Rightwing Assholes.
Coventina
(26,874 posts)rucky
(35,211 posts)Small Accumulates
(149 posts)madokie
(51,076 posts)But you're right though
rug
(82,333 posts)Ikonoklast
(23,973 posts)And people said the Roman Catholic Church doesn't try to run things in this country on orders from Rome.
Guess again.
MohRokTah
(15,429 posts)The only Catholic o the high court who voted against the majority was the only female Catholic.
Ikonoklast
(23,973 posts)And not an Opus Dei member.