MORE ATTENTION FOR MY COLLEAGUE BEN BARTON’S EMPIRICAL WORK ON SUPREME COURT JUSTICES’ BACKGROUNDS: How is the Roberts Court unusual? A law professor counts the ways. “Roberts Court justices have spent more pre-appointment time in legal academia, appellate judging, and living in Washington, D.C. than any previous Supreme Court. . . . They also spent the most time in elite undergraduate and law school settings.”

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