# How Should the Supreme Court be composed?

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**Category:** Great Debates\
**Created:** [August 11, 2006, 12:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-should-the-supreme-court-be-composed/368274 "2006-08-11T12:33:50Z")\
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**Author:** ![John\_Mace](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/john_mace/32/185_2.png) [@John\_Mace](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/John_Mace)\
**Post date:** [August 18, 2006, 9:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-should-the-supreme-court-be-composed/368274/41 "2006-08-18T21:12:52Z")

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> [@Evil Captor](#):
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> Ginsburg: old, white, female, Protestant, moderate - D

Jewish/liberal. You are generous with the label of “conservative” but stingy when it comes to “liberal”. If Ginsburg isn’t liberal, I don’t know who is.

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> Jeebus, folks, anybody see a pattern there? I’m OK with “old” or 'middle aged" but Jeebus, the way the Pubbies are going, the Supreme Court is gonna be nine old white male Catholic conservatives if they stay in power. I don’t think the Court should be appointed strictly along demographic lines, but really, do ya think people aren’t going to notice how very … limited … the pool from which Supreme Court members are selected?

Why don’t you start a thread about that? Oh, yeah, you did. How did that turn out?

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