The Supreme Court looks more like America than it ever has. The lawyers who argue at the nation’s highest court? Not so much.

The current two-week session of arguments features 25 men and just two women, an imbalance so stark that the Biden administration’s top Supreme Court lawyer made a point of it in her defense of race-conscious college admissions Monday.

Elizabeth Prelogar testifies before the Senate Judiciary Committee during her confirmation hearing to be U.S. Solicitor General, on Tuesday, September 14, 2021. Image via Committee Video Elizabeth Prelogar testifies before the Senate Judiciary Committee during her confirmation hearing to be U.S. Solicitor General, on Tuesday, September 14, 2021. Image via Committee Video

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