13 Jul 2005 Women and Inexperienced People are OK for Court

Posted at 01:15h in Blog by

This AP lead strikes me as a rather sexist:

President Bush said Wednesday that he would consider nominating a woman or someone with no experience as a judge to replace retiring Justice Sandra Day O’Connor…

Why toss women in with inexperienced people? And why is it newsworthy to mention women at all? Who besides the AP thought women weren’t being considered?



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