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Monday, June 24, 2013

Supreme Court's absence of class diversity

Too Much
THIS WEEK
The justices of the U.S. Supreme Court have
just released their annual financial disclosures.
The disclosure forms don’t require the justices
to be particularly specific. The best we can tell,
counting residences, all nine justices hold a
good bit over $1 million in personal net worth.

All nine justices, in other words, sit comfortably
within America’s richest 2 percent, a little
statistical tidbit that doesn’t seem to interest
our chattering class. This latest round of
financial disclosures has garnered next to no
commentary.

But think about this for a moment. Our current
Supreme Court has more gender and ethnic
diversity than any high court in American history.
We proudly celebrate this diversity as a welcome
sign of social progress. Yet we give no attention
at all to the Supreme Court’s absolute absence
of class diversity.

On the nation’s highest bench, as almost
everywhere else in America, the rich rule.
Democracy runs a poor second. More on the race
this week in Too Much.

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