Sandra Day O’Connor’s Supreme Court Has Female Majority
Screenshot of game from Ourcourts.com
A game on Sandra Day O’Connor’s educational website features a U.S. Supreme Court that is more diverse than the current court.
The interactive game at OurCourts.org features a Supreme Court with five females, one of them black, and four males, CQ Politics Legal Beat reports. Since retiring, O’Connor has backed efforts to increase public understanding of the courts.
Students playing the game act as a clerk to a fictional Supreme Court justice who is weighing a suit by a student barred from wearing a T-shirt featuring his favorite rock band. The game is aimed at middle-school-age kids.
O’Connor was the court’s first female justice. Now the court has two justices, including its newest addition, Sonia Sotomayor.
