Making the judiciary look more like America
As America has become more diverse, its law schools and firms have followed suit. But the pipeline to the judiciary is blocked?white males are overrepresented on state appellate benches by a margin of nearly two-to-one. Ciara Torres-Spelliscy, one of the authors of a Brennan Center for Justice study on making the judiciary more diverse, and Kim Cocroft, a newly appointed judge in Columbus, Ohio, join John and Jerome with a look at the issue.
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