If we wanna do a basic racial/gender breakdown, should be 3 white men, 3 white women, 1 black of either gender, 1 Hispanic, and 1 mystery seat (another Hispanic or maybe an Asian) We currently have: 3 white men 1 Black 1 Latina 3 Jews Jews have taken all the white women seats.https://twitter.com/SarahKSilverman/status/1045731206434676736 …
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The Kavanaugh seat, if we’re doing proportional representation of “who we are as a country”, could technically be the mystery seat. Fine: unfair. But let’s address the 3 Jews (there shouldn’t be any Jews on the SC going by “who we are as a nation” reasoning) taking 3 seats first
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Why does 2% of our population get 33% of our Supreme Court seats? How’s that fair?
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“But Judaism is just a religion!” Fine. Let’s play religious identity politics. We have 5 Catholics & 3 Jews. By “who we are as a nation”, we should have 5 Protestants, 2 Catholics, and 2 atheist/agnostic/irreligious justices. All other religions should have no seats at all.
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And by the way: that last tweet was for the sake of argument. It is not “just a religion”. 1) they’ll tell you that themselves (I’m not white I’m Jewish) 2) Wikipedia even lists Jews on their world wide list of ethnic groups They are distinct & hoarding 33% of SC seats.
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Another fun fact: 8 of the 113 Supreme Court justices that have ever served have been Jewish. 7%. Despite them only being 2% of population now & (as an example), less than half of one percent of population as recently as 1880. Right historical wrongs: no more jewish justices.
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That is how this works right? “Well women & poc have been historically marginalized. Now is their turn on the court to make up for the past record.” Again: Jews already gobbled up 7%. To retroactively correct that, we can have no more Jewish justices til number balance out again
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The first SC Justice was confirmed in 1789. 229 years ago. We have had 113 justices total. There have been 8 Jews. If we want that number back to 2% (to say nothing of lower percentages of Jews in US historically), we have to have no new Jewish justices til after 400th confirmed
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Really puts things in perspective if we’re playing “the court should represent who we are as a nation by identity”. In 229 years we’ve had 113. To rebalance Jews just to today’s 2% number they “should” have, they shouldn’t be eligible again til after number 400. Maybe 500 years.
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