The Supreme Court looks more like America than it ever has
argued to the court that extreme racial or gender disparities between certain groups"can cause people to wonder whether the path to leadership is open."
The month before wasn’t much different. Eighteen men and four women, including Prelogar, argued eight cases. Women also serve as the top appellate lawyers for Louisiana and New York and argue regularly before the court. That partially explains why so few Supreme Court advocates are women and minorities. There also are a relatively small number of slots every year at a court that has been hearing around 60 cases a year recently.
Though it's been six years since her successful appearance on behalf of a Black death row inmate in Texas, Swarns said people “all the time, all the time, all the time” say to her: “I heard your argument. I saw your argument. I can’t tell you how proud you made us that day.”
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