2023-06-14 07:00:00
95% of legal cases in the United States are resolved in state supreme courts, where hardly any 6% of judges are Latinoaccording to a recent report from the Brennan Center for Justice.
The analysis makes an assessment of the racial, ethnic, professional and gender composition of the courts, with non-whites representing 20% and women 42%, despite those groups making up more than 40 and 50% of the population in the country, respectively.
“Latino representation is the most lacking”, warns the Brennan. “There are only 20 magistrates or magistrates of Latino origin in all the state supreme courts in the country, that is, less than 6% of the judiciary in a country where 19% of its population identifies as Hispanic or Latino.”
It highlights that even states with more than 10 percent Hispanic or Latino populations do not have sufficient judicial representation, including Idaho, Illinois, Nevada, New Jersey, North Carolina, Rhode Island, Utah, Virginia, and Washington, DC.
Ricardo Ramirezadvisor to the Brennan Center en Español, addresses in greater detail in the podcast “El Diario Sin Límites” the report on judges and the challenges for the Latino population.
>> What is happening regarding the lack of Hispanic or Latino representation in state courts?
>> Why is it important to have more Latino judges?
>> Is it possible that there will be some change?
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