Supreme Court Diversity Discussion

So would you say that it's helpful, it's beneficial if our Supreme Court

resembles the racial diversity of America?

The ABA believes that diversity in all of its forms is important.

We want people to bring all of who they are, whether they

be from small practice or large practice. Diversity, can you define diversity here?

You want it to, should the Supreme Court

resemble America's racial makeup, roughly? It's a yes or no question.

The ABA does not

support quotas. I'm not asking about quotas.

I'm asking if it should roughly resemble America's racial makeup.

It should represent all of what people are. Of what people are.

Okay. So right now there's about two of nine of Supreme Court justices are black.

That's about 22 of the Supreme Court.

According to your testimony, about 13 of America's population is black.

If the Supreme Court

should roughly resemble America's demographic makeup as the ABA states is proper.

And your opinion, regardless of qualifications,

should the Senate refuse to confirm a third black Supreme Court justice?

The ABA supports and encourages diversity in all of its forms.

That wasn't my question.

My question was if a Supreme Court vacancy opens up,

should the Senate refuse to confirm a third black Supreme Court nominee based

on his race or her race?

The ABA does not support quotas.

The ABA does support some sort of, and we're going to, hopefully we'll

get into that.

The ABA does support making sure the ethnic makeup has a specific amount.