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To: Amy J who wrote (242324)	7/20/2005 9:22:31 AM
From: Elroy	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 1577272

Never mind, you don't seem to know the answer to what the sexual split is among experience highly placed candidates for the Supreme Court, so the conversation is a waste of time (for me, at least). I'll just stick my initial thought that you are sexist for thinking Bush should appoint the best woman rather than the best person, and I'm finished. I'm surprised that for someone who is supposedly in tech you can't just say a percentage or answer "I don't know". Didn't you ever take a statistics class in college?

To: Amy J who wrote (242324)	7/21/2005 8:47:57 PM
From: TimF	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1577272

If the majority of new lawyers are female, its quite possible that the majority of judges could be female in another generation or two, after awhile the majority of senior judges could be female. Eventually the majority of supreme court judges could be female. Its unlikely to become 8 to 1, but if it does and they really are legitimately seen as the best candidates I don't have a big problem with it. On a body as small as 9 people its quite possible to have all of the best candidates be from one sex or racial group. Even in a much larger group its quite possible to have a strongly disproportionate percentage of the qualified and interested candidates be from one sex or racial group. Tim