Louisiana Law Review

Louisiana Law Review: "Increasing Bench Diversity
A fifth principal motivation for the CRA reforms was interest in diversifying the bench by sex, race, ethnicity, class, and professional background.[167] By contrast with the previous appointment system’s reliance on private consultations, the CRA charged both appointment commissions with making selections “solely on merit” and free of political patronage.[168] With their emphasis on merit rather than on whom a candidate knew, the appointment commissions were thought to offer potential for achieving greater diversity as well as competence, where “merit” was no longer to be understood in narrowly constrained, tradition-bound ways.[169]"?

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