Diversity of Judges
In any courtroom in the United States, citizens under trial have a right to a jury of their peers. This jury is comprised of, and drawn from a pool that is representative of the community. Whereas the United States is diverse in many aspects, one of the areas it fails to meet this threshold is in the composition of its state judges (Alton & Ali, 2005). This diversity is important since it ties in with the promise to give justice in equal measure to all. Hence, on the bench, Americans are often confronted by a familiar site, that of a Continue reading...
