The Credentialed Court: Inside the Cloistered, Elite World of American Justice by The Heartland Daily Podcast published on 2022-05-02T16:54:21Z Heartland’s Tim Benson is joined by Benjamin H. Barton of the University of Tennessee College of Law to discuss his new book, The Credentialed Court: Inside the Cloistered, Elite World of American Justice. They chat about how different today’s Justices are from their predecessors, how they spend most of their adult lives in elite and cloistered institutions, how the Court lacks individuals who reflect differing kinds of professional and personal merit, and what can be done to return Justices to the Court with a wider range of legal and political experience. Get the book here: https://www.encounterbooks.com/books/the-credentialed-court/ Show Notes: C-SPAN: “Q&A – Benjamin Barton” (VIDEO) https://www.c-span.org/video/?518874-1/qa-benjamin-barton The Hub: Sean Speer – “Is ‘meritocracy’ most important?—Benjamin H. Barton on how a narrow set of American elites dominates the Supreme Court” https://thehub.ca/2022-03-08/benjamin-h-barton-on-how-a-narrow-group-of-american-elites-dominates-the-supreme-court/ Law & Liberty: Mark Pulliam – “Ivy League Justice” https://lawliberty.org/book-review/ivy-league-justice/ Law & Liberty: Glenn Harlan Reynolds – “The Age of the Judicial Thoroughbred” https://lawliberty.org/book-review/the-age-of-the-judicial-thoroughbred/ National Review: Dan McLaughlin – “How the Supreme Court Became the Province of Cloistered Elites” https://www.nationalreview.com/magazine/2022/04/04/how-the-supreme-court-became-the-province-of-cloistered-elites-elite-justice/ The Spectator World: Benjamin H. Barton – “How the Supreme Court lost its real diversity” https://spectatorworld.com/topic/how-the-supreme-court-lost-its-real-diversity/ Genre News & Politics