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In entire (supreme) court term, justices see 1 black lawyer
In entire court term, justices see 1 black lawyer
WASHINGTON (AP) -- In roughly 75 hours of arguments at the Supreme Court since October, only one African-American lawyer appeared before the justices, and for just over 11 minutes.
The numbers were marginally better for Hispanic lawyers. Four of them argued for a total of 1 hour, 45 minutes.
Women were better represented, accounting for just over 17 percent of the arguments before the justices.
In an era when three women, a Hispanic and an African-American sit on the court and white men constitute a bare majority of the nine justices, the court is more diverse than the lawyers who argue before it.
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Full article here: http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/U/US_SUPREME_COURT_DIVERSITY?SITE=AP&SECTION=HOME&TEMPLATE=DEFAULT&CTIME=2013-05-12-08-40-33
