A Supreme Court with Three Liberal Women

Today Steve Sailer is analyzing the question of black woman Kentanji Jackson Brown on the Supreme Court. And it's all about whether she is really up to snuff, because Bell Curves by race.

Sailer argues that to be a top-flight lawyer you need to be absolutely out on the edge of the Bell Curve for intelligence.

The race disparity in talent is particularly glaring in the practice of law because much of it is so dependent on raw brainpower... But the meat and potatoes of lawyering—writing contracts—is basically a medieval form of coding. Your job is to anticipate what could go wrong in a deal and write if-then-else statements to protect your client from those eventualities.

So, if Brown isn't up to snuff on the medieval coding, what then?

Well, I think that if Brown gets on the court and joins the other two liberal women, Justices Kagan and Sotomayor, what you get is three rather below-average judges. But not necessarily because Bell Curve.

For sure Justices Breyer and RBG is that they were pretty smart. Wrong on everything? Sure. Crazycakes? Got it. But they were up to the challenge of writing cunning liberal Supreme Court opinions that further the agenda and the hegemony and the domination of the liberal ruling class.

How do you get to do that? Well, I'd say you need quite a bit of appeals-court experience, knowing, from experience, how to push your political agenda.

But what about the three liberal girls? I think that they won't be so smart as their predecessors. But I don't think that their raw intelligence is the big issue. 

I think that the big problem for the three liberal girls is that, having been elevated because racism-sexism-homophobia they don't have the political and collegial smarts to make a difference on the Court. That means they won't be as good at persuading their conservative brethren and sistren into compromise decisions that protect the liberal monuments of civil rights, women's rights and LGBT rights.

Of course, for you and me those liberal monuments are monuments of monstrous injustice, but that is another story.

The point is, to me, that to argue in conference, and gather majorities on the court, and write monumental Supreme Court decisions you need to have a strategic mind, and a collegial personality. Much more than a mind that is good at medieval coding.

I'd say you need that more than pure intellectual horsepower.

So I think that having three liberal girls on the Supreme Court who basically got there because they were the right race and gender is not good strategy.

In my view liberals are going to need the best lawyers and committeemen and persuaders in the world to protect their glorious liberal legal monuments in the Autumn of the Liberal Ages.

Instead they are putting average personalities on the Court that really don't have the chops to defend their achievements and conduct a defense in depth that slows the conservative advance until the glorious new liberal era dawns.