Woman former OSG lawyer with 20 yrs exp & > a dozen SCOTUS arguments: It is really hard to get clients to hire women and minorities for SCOTUS cases.

Woman minority Supreme Court lawyer: Clients (corporate & individual) constantly second guess me and do not see me as an expert.

Woman appellate lawyer who has argued > 100 appeals: Clients see hiring women as taking a risk and no one wants to take a risk on a Supreme Court case.

Woman SCOTUS lawyer: literally I can’t even get an imprisoned plaintiff who petitioned pro se to agree to let me argue his case

Minority SCOTUS lawyer: hiring a former SG to argue a Supreme Court case is seen as uncontroversial and there aren’t a whole lot of those that look like me.

Former SG: Honestly I think it’s just a pipeline problem and time will fix it.

There are a whole lot of reasons why women and minorities are not arguing proportionate to their representation in the SCOTUS Bar—client risk averseness, argument hogging, inequitable assignment of SCOTUS work, discrimination, implicit bias, and more.

But time will not fix it.

It takes actual work to fix it and if you’re relying on time to be the magic cure, you’re part of the problem, not part of the solution.