Joe Biden’s nomination of Ketanji Brown Jackson has renewed debates over the qualifications of Supreme Court justices. The timing could not be better for The Credentialed Court, by University of Tennessee law professor Benjamin Barton. Jackson may be hailed as an avatar of diversity as the first African-American woman nominated to the Court, but by Barton’s standards, her path from Harvard to a Supreme Court clerkship and a D.C. federal judgeship represents instead the diminishing diversity of professional and life experience on the Court.
