Obama's Tammany Politics
From my new column in The Week:
In any meaningful sense of the word, nobody gives a damn about "diversity" on the Supreme Court. Does anybody care whether a judge has served in the military or done lawyering for a national security agency? Or whether a judge has expertise in the sciences? Or whether he or she has represented a union as opposed to business clients? Or whether he or she has practiced law abroad or otherwise gained familiarity with foreign legal systems? No, no, no, no. Of all the myriad ways that the life experiences of one lawyer can differ from those of another, it is race and sex that energize our judge-pickers.