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To: Mary Cluney who wrote (4980)	11/6/2005 5:23:41 PM
From: Lane3	Respond to of 542041

over the last 50 years You're doing the wrong math on this. Women graduated from law school in the last thirty or so of them are irrelevant to the issue. The women graduated way back were fewer in number, struggled more on the ladder due to discrimination, and may have taken time out to do the family thing. It's obvious that there will be way fewer qualified women than men short term. Surely there are some, even Republicans, but there's no way that they will be proportional to women in the population or even women graduating from law school in the last fifty years. Actually, the women considered most qualified by the party in power would have been anathema to the other side of the aisle. You want, maybe, Janice or the Ediths? Maybe in ten years Hillary will be on the court.

To: Mary Cluney who wrote (4980)	11/7/2005 7:01:37 AM
From: thames_sider	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 542041

Of the 10,000 women that are there - graduates from the elite law schools (like Hillary etc) no one is equal to or better than Alito. I find that hard to believe. I'd say no harder to believe that, than to believe none of the other 89,999 men are better qualified either :) Of all the things to worry about in Bush's choices for SC, I'd rank candidate gender among the lowest. The SC is not designed to be representative of the general population, and if anything I'd say that's probably a good thing. I would not like to think the evangelical wing could insist on one or two candidates who would use their faith to inform and direct every judgement, for example.