According to a Gallup poll a big majority of Americans don't think it matters if Obama appoints a woman to replace David Souter on the Supreme Court. I haven't looked into the poli sci research on this question in at least 5 years, but as I recall studies from the 1990s at the state level showed that once there was one female member of a supreme court there was relatively little push to add more additional women to the those courts. And of course out of 50 states there are only 3 on which the number of female justices if greater than the number of male justices (Wisconsin, Michigan, and, since mid-March, Tennessee).
Posted by armand at May 14, 2009 02:39 PM | TrackBack | Posted to Law and the Courts | Law and the Courts