I heard hardworking Nina Totenberg on NPR's All Things Considered this afternoon discussing the possible Supreme Court nominees. She went through a bunch of women's names, a few men. She made gender distinctions, and racial ones too, indicating that Obama would factor in these matters: Puerto Rican, Hispanic, and black.
She didn't mention my favorite subdivision of the human family: Jews. I believe Elena Kagan is Jewish. Does Obama think about these things? Of course. If he nominates Kagan, that will mean that the last three Justices nominated by Democratic presidents, in fact all the Justices nominated by Dems, will have been Jews: Breyer, Ginsburg, Kagan. (sorry about the tenses there, I know they're wrong). Is that bad? On the face of it, I confess I'd be against it, on diversity grounds. I want the prestige passed around a little more. I didn't like it when WASPs were everywhere in the Establishment either.
