Biden’s Top SCOTUS Lawyer Should Be Woman, Court Watchers Say

President-elect Joe Biden should make diversity a priority in picking his top lawyer to argue before the U.S. Supreme Court, female appellate litigators and progressive activists say.

The former vice president and one-time chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee has already pledged to nominate a woman of color to the high court bench, should the opportunity arise.

The Supreme Court bar, however, is still largely made up of white males.

The Office of the Solicitor General argues by far the most high court cases each term and has traditionally been a springboard for female and male litigators to build Supreme ...